ANNOTATIONS 



HYMNAL 



CONSISTING OF 



NOTES, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AUTHORS, 
ORIGINALS AND REFERENCES. 



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Rev. CHARLES L HUTCHINS, M.A 



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M. H. MALLORY AND CO., HARTFORD, CONN. 
1872. 






Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by 

CHARLES L. HUTCHINS, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



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PREFACE. 



Seating myself at my table to write some prefatory pages to the 
following annotations, my eyes chance to rest upon two or three scores of 
Hymnals, and works upon Hymnody, arranged along my shelves. As I 
think of the many wise (and some unwise) thoughts expressed in those 
volumes, and of similar thoughts scattered through many other books 
around me, it seems superfluous — a work of supererogation — for me to 
say what I had intended, and what I rather want to say ; and I will forego 
my purpose. My silence shall be wiser than my speech. And in place 
of what I proposed saying, I will give — and this does not require an 
apology but will receive thanks from all who read these pages — some 
most thoughtful words from two gifted hymnologists, who are well 
qualified, in every way, to speak upon this subject. 

But first, I may with propriety remark, that the substance of these 
annotations has been in the course of preparation about two years. With 
an apology for referring to any other work of my own, I would say, 
that nearly two years ago, after the publication of my "Church Hymnal" 
I determined to revise and enlarge it, if the General Convention should 
not adopt an authorized Hymnal. In the work of selecting hymns, I 
could fix upon no better principle to guide me than that of the popularity 
or general acceptance of hymns, in the Christian Church. It seemed to 
me that for most of our hymns, this would be the best practical test. I 
say most of our hymns, for there; are many, of recent composition, or of 
recent translation from other tongues, that can have this test applied to 
them in but a limited degree. By this course, it could be pretty well 
ascertained what hymns had received the general approval and sanction 
of the Church. Personal tastes concerning some hymns, would have, 
not seldom, to be sacrificed to this test, but the result it was thought, 
would be satisfactory. Accordingly, I examined all the standard Hymnals 
within my reach, making such notes as would be of service, and such a 



selection of hymns as would, I thought, be acceptable to our Communion. 
In the end, however, it was not necessary to set forth the result of my 
labours in a revised Hymnal, for our highest ecclesiastical legislative body, 
at its recent Council, adopted a book, which was alone authorized for use 
in the Church. Since the adoption of the new Hymnal, I have continued 
and extended these annotations, with reference to the authorized book, 
thinking that they might be of interest to many who will use the Hymnal, 
and perhaps of a little service in considering the merits of a collection 
which is, in a sense, but tentative. 

I had been engaged in making these annotations a few months when I 
received (in the winter of 1870) a copy of Bickersteth's "Hymnal Com- 
panion to the Book of Common Prayer" and I was gratified that the 
principle which I had adopted, had been acted upon- by the accomplished 
hymnologist and poet whose compilation, it seems to me, is not excelled 
by any in use in the Church of England. 

In another place, I give a list of most of the works consulted in the 
preparation of this volume. And here I must be permitted the privilege 
of making my most sincere acknowledgments to the Rev. F. M. Bird, of 
Spotswood, N, J., for the constant assistance he has given me in these 
annotations. Of that gentleman's gifts in hymnology, the beautiful and 
exhaustive volume entitled " Songs of the Spirit" recently published, is 
ample evidence. Those who are acquainted with his hymnologic attain- 
ments will justify me in applying to him a remark he has made concerning 
another, viz. : " His large collection of hymn-books, and his marvellous 
acquaintance with hymnology, render him the indispensable helper of all 
hymn collectors who would have their work well done." 

With these prefatory explanations, I beg to call the reader's attention 
to the following remarks on " Hymnody," by Sir Roundell Palmer, at the 
Church Congress at York, 1866; and the no less valuable remarks of' 
Earl Nelson, at the Church Congress at Nottingham, in 1871. 



From the Paper of Sir Roundell Palmer. 

The object of hymnody, although its use is variable and discretionary, 
is, of course, not merely to afford relief during the pauses of a more seri- 
ous duty : it is in itself, when rightly understood and applied, an act of 
worship of the highest, heartiest, and most intelligent kind. " I confess," 
said Richard Baxter, "that harmony and melody are the pleasure and 
elevation of my soul, and have made a psalm of praise in the holy assem- 



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bly the chief delightful exercise of my religion and my life, and hath 
helped to bear down all the objections which I have heard against church 
music." To give it this character, the choice of hymns ought to be made 
upon the principle that their matter and words are of cardinal import- 
ance ; the music being accessory to the sense, and chosen with a view to 
give it lively and harmonious expression. When "praises" are "sung 
with understanding," it is not only a fit utterance of the higher spiritual 
emotions to " a mind in tune," with the " powers in vigorous exercise," 
the " thoughts bright and intense," and " the whole soul awake " (words 
which I have adopted from Simon Browne) ; — it is not only a powerful 
instrument for the education, direction, and development of those emo- 
tions, in a mind less active and mature ; but it is very often a key by 
which the inner meaning and spiritual application of Scripture and of its 
language and imagery is opened and made practical to simple people, far 
better than by expositions or commentaries. The opinion, which once 
prevailed, that nothing but psalms taken directly from Scripture ought to 
be sung in the congregation, was narrow and groundless ; but the sub- 
stance of Scripture, assimilated and made part of the spiritual life, has 
always supplied the principal matter for the best hymns : and this may 
explain why excellent hymns have been written by persons who have given 
no proofs of skill in any other kind of poetry. Religious enthusiasm, fed 
by the poetry of inspiration, grows like that which it lives upon, and 
reflects the warmth and light which it could not have originated. 

If a hymn ought to be the expression of lively apprehensions of spir- 
itual things, and of genuine religious emotions and aspirations, in the 
mouth of the worshipper, it is evident that it must have come, with these 
characters, fresh from the heart and mind of the person who wrote it. 
To be " recited with rapture " (I again use the words of Simon Browne), 
ought it to be " written under a kind of inspiration." Whatever detracts 
from this, mars its effect. And, for this reason, it ought not to be vulgar, 
prosaic, or didactic ; it should be high in tone, simple and pure in taste 
and feeling, and not without some touch of the fire and energy of poetry. 

From these premises I draw certain conclusions. 

My first conclusion is that a healthy natural taste is more to be trusted 
in the composition and selection of hymns than technical rules, supposed 
to be derived from antiquity, or from the criticism of the works of other 
ages. The ancient hymn-writers did not, in fact, work by such rules: 
their manner was natural, and suitable to their time: but it does not 
follow that it should be a law to ours. A passage is sometimes quoted 



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from S. Augustine, in which he speaks of a hymn as a " song of praise to 
God ; " and this definition has been offered as one of the tests by which 
all hymns ought to be approved or rejected. But what can be the value 
of a definition which would exclude every hymn of which the spirit is 
supplication rather than praise? I know not whether this rule is sup- 
posed to require that a hymn should assume the form of a direct invoca- 
tion or address to God ; yet I am at a loss to understand on what other 
ground Addison's hymn, " The spacious -firmament on high" can have been 
thought to offend against it, by a learned writer in the Quarterly Review 
of January, 1862 ; who adds, " if it is poetry, it is certainly not song ; yet 
has been brought, by old associations, into many hymn-books." For my 
own part I fervently hope that it may always remain there. Praise to 
God as glorified in His works, is the substance and essence of every part 
of that hymn, as it is of the beautiful verses of the 19th Psalm on which it is 
founded. If it be not poetry, I do not know what is ; and to prove that 
it is song (and soul stirring song too) it is only necessary to hear it (as I 
often have) heartily sung to an appropriate tune. 

Another arbitrary rule (also advocated by considerable authority) 
condemns the use, in hymns, of the singular pronouns (< I" and "my," 
instead of the plural " we" and "our" as "inconsistent with the united 
song of a congregation looking "God-ward," and opposed to the spirit of 
the early Church. Such a point ought to be determined by reason, not 
authority : and I cannot find for it any good reason. Private meditations, 
which express the circumstances, experiences, or emotions of particular 
persons, in a way distinctively applicable to those individuals, are (of 
course) not appropriate for public use. But, if an act of praise or wot ship, 
suitable for the participation of Christians in general, takes form naturally 
as the song of an individual soul "looking God-ward," its simultaneous 
adoption and application to himself by every member of a congregation 
makes it as much "the united song of the congregation" as if it were 
conceived in the plural. A congregation is the aggregate of a number of 
individuals: it cannot "look God- ward," except through those individuals. 
The essence of public Christian worship consists in the combination of 
the separate devotion of each particular person present, with the sense of 
Christian brotherhood, binding them all together. The Quarterly 
Reviewer, for reasons not satisfactory to my mind, thinks the incorpora- 
tion of the Psalms of David, and other Scripture-songs, (which generally 
run in the first person singular,) into both Jewish and Christian worship, 
irrelevant to this question. But the first person singular is also used in 



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the Apostolic and Nicene Creeds ; which, in the public services of the 
Church, are hymns of the most solemn kind, and embody the common 
profession of faith of the whole congregation ; and the Te Deum, although 
expressed (down to the last verse) in the plural, ends with a petition in the 
singular number. This rule (like the former) tends to proscribe most 
supplicatory hymns. Such hymns as "Rock of Ages, cleft for me;" 
" When I survey the wondrous Cross ;" " Jesu, Lover of my soul ;" "My 
God, my Father, while I stray;" "Nearer, my God, to Thee;" "Abide 
with me, fast falls the eventide;" Ken's morning and evening hymns; 
and Keble's " Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear" are proved, by the 
- common assent of most of our churches, to be fit for united song by the 
congregation ; yet the singular form is as proper and necessary in them as 
the plural can possibly be in others. Even with respect to antiquity, a 
canon which would condemn the "Dies Irae" does not seem to me to be 
entitled to very profound veneration. 

My next conclusion is, that good native English hymns are, generally 
speaking, to be preferred to translations properly so-called. It is the 
peculiar defect of metrical translation that it cannot give the natural man- 
ner, or the real mind, either of the author or of the translator. It is a 
curious exercise of art, not a spontaneous production. It moves in fetters : 
it is compelled to find substitutes (for want of precise equivalents in dif- 
ferent languages) for the finer touches, which give colour and character to 
the original. Under the exigences of verse and rhyme, it is alternately 
diluted with expletives, and starved by arbitrary compression. It aims at 
being a copy, under conditions which make complete success impossible. 

These observations apply, with especial force, to metrical versions of 
the Psalms ; which are, perhaps, of all compositions, the most unfit for 
such treatment. No one can read the prose translations of the Psalms in 
our Bibles and Prayer Books, without feeling their extreme power and 
beauty ; no one can pass from them to the " Old " or " New " Version, or 
to any other of the numerous similar attempts, without perceiving that 
(with very rare exceptions) the power and beauty are gone ; that the water- 
springs have dried up, and the fruitful land has become barren. Not only 
the authors of the " Old " and " New " and Scotch Versions, but Sir Philip 
Sidney and his sister the Countess of Pembroke, Milton in his boyhood, 
"Wither, Sandys, Sir John Denham, John Keble, and many more, have 
tried what could be done, upon the principle of a strict and full adherence 
to the Hebrew sense. It is not too much to say, that all of them have 
failed. From the collective results of their labours it would be difficult to 



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extract more than about fifteen or twenty Psalms, or portions of Psalms, 
really good and suitable for singing in our public services ; and few of 
these are of any high order of merit. On the other hand, those writers 
who, without professing to translate, founded hymns of their own upon 
passages or thoughts which they felt to be suitable for the purpose, either 
in the Psalms or in other parts of Scripture, (as Addison, Watts, Dod- 
dridge, Lyte, and James Montgomery,) have contributed to English hym- 
nody many of its richest treasures. To reckon works of this class among 
"psalms," as distinguished from "hymns," (as has been done in many 
books,) is a manifest error ; but, when they are subtracted, little remains 
for the sake of which it can be worth while to continue that distinction. 

My third deduction from the same principles is, that hymns (or those 
parts of them which are adopted into our Hymnals) ought to be taken as 
they are written, with the strictest possible adherence to the words of 
their authors. It signifies little if we meet, here and there, with a defect- 
ive rhyme, or a phrase open to criticism : but it is vitally important that 
there should be no interference with the life, consistency, and reality of 
the composition, as the true expression of what the writer actually felt 
when "the fire" was "kindled" within him. It is not the injustice done 
to the writer upon which I would mainly dwell ; although, on that point, 
the complaint of James Montgomery ought to be heard. "If good 
people," he says, " cannot conscientiously adopt the writer's diction and 
doctrine, it is a little questionable in them to impose upon him theirs, 
which he may as honestly hesitate to receive. Yet this is the cross by 
which every author of a hymn, who hopes to be useful to his generation, 
may expect to be tested, at the pleasure of any Christian brother, however 
incompetent or little qualified to amend what he may deem amiss, in one 
of the most delicate and difficult exercises of a tender heart and an 
enlightened understanding." My complaint, in the general interest of 
British hymnody, is, that the tendency, and the practical effect, of this 
system of tampering with the text, is not really to amend, but is to patch, 
disfigure, spoil, and emasculate ; and, even when nothing worse is done, to 
substitute neutral tints for natural colouring, and a dead for a living sense. 
A real poet, if he were to suffer himself to change a word or a line in the 
works of other men whenever he thought they were capable of improve- 
ment, would be much more likely to deface what he meddled with, than 
to produce anything worthy of himself. Much more those who have not 
the gift of poetry. The old story of the painter who, believing his work 
to be perfect, invited every bystander to paint over what he did not like. 



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is realized in these cases ; there is no part of the composition which one 
man or another does not find fault with and change ; the only difference 
is, that it is done without invitation. There are hardly any conditions of 
mind more opposed to each other, than the spirit of minute criticism and 
that of poetical enthusiasm ; and when a work, composed under the 
poetical impulse, is altered by a stranger in the critical mood, it cannot be 
wondered at if the result described by Ovid follows : — 

u Frigida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis, 
Mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus." 

There is a medley of hot and cold, moist and dry, soft and hard, weighty 
matter and matter without weight. 

What has been said of alteration leads naturally to abbreviation ; which, 
indeed, is in many cases advantageous, and in not a few unavoidable. 
But, if it is worth while to sing hymns at all, it is worth while to allow as 
much time for singing as will make it complete, hearty, and intelligent ; 
and an abridgement or selection of parts, when proper, ought to be so 
made as to omit nothing which is requisite to unity, symmetry, and com- 
pleteness, both of structure and of sense. The part taken should be a 
perfect hymn in itself ; the parts omitted ought to be separable, so as to 
leave behind, when they are removed, no chasm, no sign of mutilation, no 
abrupt unsatisfactory end. Yet there are some hymn-books in which 
these principles are entirely lost sight of: books which seem to have been 
manufactured with the scissors, without much aid from the mind ; as if it 
were as easy a thing to measure and cut off two or three inches from a 
hymn as from a yard of calico or broad-cloth. It is surely better to 
abstain altogether from compositions, which may be thought to exceed the 
desirable length, than to use them in this way. 

If doctrinal or theological reasons are pleaded for the system of alter- 
ation and curtailment against which I contend, my answer is — By all 
means let any hymn be rejected which is really open to a well founded 
doctrinal objection ; but do not make a compromise by patching in such 
cases ; do not endeavor to exorcise the heresy by spoiling the hymn ; and, 
in the first instance, do not examine into its orthodoxy in a narrow suspi- 
cious temper, so as to conjure up doctrinal errors where there really are 
none^ The office of a hymn is not to teach controversial theology, but to 
give the voice of song to practical religion. No doubt, to do this, it must 
embody sound doctrine ; but it ought to do so, not after the manner of the 
schools, but with the breadth, freedom, and simplicity of the Fountain- 



head. Whatever does this ought to be frankly and cordially accepted, 
without regard to any peculiarities of the sect or party to which the 
author may have belonged. Sound and good words need not be taken in 
a crooked sense, because the writer may have professed or may have 
controversially denied this or that dogma. Scripture is large and compre- 
hensive, presenting both the poles and the whole circumference of truth ; 
and it is following in the track of error to see truth on one side only, and 
to disparage one aspect of it because those who rejoice in that may be 
insensible to another. 

If the objection be, not that the theology of a hymn is unsound, but 
that its tone or language is irreverent or too familiar, I admit this also 
(supposing the criticism to be well founded, as it sometimes is) to be a 
good reason, not for the alteration, but for the rejection of the hymn. 
But here, too, there is great need of sound discrimination. Coldness is 
not reverence ; nor is all warmth of expression undue familiarity. If that 
love which is the highest attainment, towards which the mind of every 
Christian ought to be directed, is a real lively affection of the heart, and 
not an abstract principle, then the emotions and the language proper to 
that affection cannot be banished from our hymns, merely because the 
English tongue uses one term to express the two ideas, which the Greeks 
distinguished by their words "ayairq" and "epuc," or because other words 
may have a similar double use. Men certainly not irreverent, (as George 
Herbert and Bishop Ken,) habitually used such language, with a warmth 
and freedom far exceeding what would be suitable for general adoption ; 
and I remember a criticism even of the Christian Year, in which excep- 
tion was taken, on this ground, to some passages in that work of one of 
the most reverent among men. Charles Wesley's hymn, " Jesu, Lover 
of my soul" has been blamed on this account : if justly, I do not see why 
like blame should not attach to the Latin hymn, " Jesu dulcedo cordium" 
and to several others. Of which I would say, that, where (as in these 
cases) the ideas and imagery are all suggested by those Scriptures which 
are continually read in our churches, while the context, and the whole 
tone and spirit of the composition, utterly repel every low and irreverent 
thought, it does seem to me to be a very unhealthy criticism, which would 
call up earthly associations, in order to found upon them censure, not 
otherwise deserved. # 

What has been said requires two, and (so far as I am aware) only two 
qualifications. First, there may be cases in which part of a composition, 
well suited for use as a hymn, requires some change in the commence- 



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ment, or in words of connection or reference, to sever it from its 
context ; or in which some antiquated form of expression, or some word, 
no longer popularly understood in the sense intended by the author, might 
(if allowed to remain) have a disturbing effect, or might suggest incongruous 
associations. I do not say that alteration in such cases may not be justi- 
fied : but, if so, it should be limited by the necessity which justifies it, 
and should be tolerated only, as the less of two evils ; like the restoration 
of a broken statue, or a damaged picture. Madan was not blameable 
for altering the word "welkin" in the first line of Charles Wesley's 
Christmas Hymn — 

Hark ! how all the welkin rings 
Glory to the King of Kings ! 

But he went beyond the necessity of the case, in the well-known couplet 
which he substituted — 

Hark ! the herald angels sing, 
Glory to the new-born King ! 

And, in so doing, he departed from the substance of the angelic song, to 
which Wesley had adhered. Still less was he warranted in pi-oceeding to 
change the fine lines at the end of the stanza — 

Universal Nature say, 

Christ the Lord is born to-day ! 



into the very inferior couplet- 



With th' angelic host proclaim, 
Christ is born in Bethlehem ! 

Secondly, there is a difference between patchwork alterations, and a 
hymn by one writer, founded upon the earlier work of another, from 
which he has drawn his materials, but has recast them, as by a new and 
original effort. In these cases success is possible, though not easy, if the 
later writer has himself attained to a real enthusiasm, so as to make the 
work his own, and lose the copyist in the poet. Of such success our 
hymnody supplies several examples: perhaps the best is Cameron's 
beautiful hymn, in the Scotch paraphrases, "How bright these glorious 
spirits shine/" which is derived from one by Watts. 

Some idea of the multitude of hymns extant in our language may per- 
haps be formed, when it is stated, that the compositions published under 
that designation (or as Psalms not translated) by eight authors only, 
(Watts, Simon Browne, Doddridge, Charles Wesley, Newton, Beddome, 



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Kelly, and James Montgomery,) number about 6,500: and that in 1861 
Mr. Sedgwick (to whom all English hymnologists are under great obliga- 
tions) published a catalogue of 618 authors of original English hymns, 
(72 of them also translators,) besides 53 who were translators only. 

From the Paper of Earl Nelson. 

Let me bring before you the essential marks of a hymn worthy of a 
place in such an authorised hymnal. 

1. It must be full of Scripture. 

2. Full of individual life and reality. 

3. It must have the acceptance of the use of the Church. 

4. It must be as pure in its English, in its rhyme and rhythm, as the 
Prayer Book itself. 

In considering these tests, it will be well to bear in mind what a hymn 
really is. 

Every hymn, to be worthy of the name, must be in a certain sense in- 
spired ; that is to say, it must proceed from an earnest communing with 
God ; either from devout contemplation of Him, and meditation upon His 
written Word ; or it must come from a life of earnest self-denying labours 
for his sake ; or from a time of hearty prayer and earnest wrestling with 
sin ; or from a time of deep thankfulness for mercies received ; or out of 
a time of severe bodily or mental trial — each and all drawing a man into 
deeper communion with his God. It is for want of this that so many 
hymns fail to come up, even in the common judgment of men, to be worthy 
of the name ; for want of this so many who have written good hymns 
have also written so many bad and inferior ones ; for want of this it is 
that hymns written to supply a Sunday or special occasion, in some fresh 
hymn-book of the day, are generally such complete failures. 

It is remarked of Theophanes, among the Greek hymn-writers, that 
" in his writings we first see the bane and ruin of later Greek writers — the 
composition of hymns not from the spontaneous effusion of the heart, but 
because they are wanted to fill up a gap in the Office-book." And again 
of another: "Very pretty verses, but not of the stuff of which the ordinary 
hymns of the Church are made. They may commend themselves to men 
of taste, but to be the heart-utterance of nature, to go with the multitude 
and give them voice in the house of God, never ! " 

A hymn coming from a deep communing with God, and from the special 
experience of the human heart, at once fulfils, and can only thus fulfil, the 
four tests I have ventured to lay down. 



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It may be objected that bad rhymes and inferior diction may be found in 
inspired hymns. To this I would answer Yes, and No. The bad rhymes 
to our ears can be quoted without number in hymns avowedly coming up 
to my other tests ; but they were not bad rhymes to the writer, and only 
show the old pronunciation, and what is now considered bad taste was 
not so considered when the hymn was written. The very earnestness 
of a real heart-utterance from direct communion with God would bring 
with it reverence enough to avoid carelessness in the composition or in the 
rhyme. For these reasons, with great care, and in very special cases, 
even as J. Wesley himself carefully altered some of George Herbert's 
hymns to give them a more uniform metre, some alterations might be 
allowed. In C. Wesley's original, " Lo, He comes, with clouds descend- 
ing," the refrain of the last verse, " Jah, Jehovah ! everlasting God, come 
down," would now seem almost profane, and could well and wisely be 
changed after the refrain of the first verse. So in the well-known Christ- 
mas Hymn, " Join and thine," once good rhymes, are bad now, and might 
perhaps be altered. But let me not be misunderstood. I have been en- 
tirely converted from my first errors, and now hold that all abbreviations 
and alterations are, as a general rule, to be carefully avoided. 

Now for a word on translations. 

Of course a great number of the ancient Greek and Latin hymns would 
come before us complying with all the tests — full of Scripture, full of indi- 
viduality, full of the consent of the Church. The diction and rhyme is a 
matter for the translators ; and though we have such good translators that 
there is no fear of a failure, as in Cranmer's day, I do think we are bound 
to make the best translation better still, by more truly, where necessary, 
bringing out the meaning of the original, and by bringing it out in the 
best possible English. Not literally rendering each Latin word, but trying 
to master the thoughts of the author, and rendering them as he would 
have done had he written them in our own English tongue. None felt the 
necessity of this more than John Mason Neale, who always begged us fear- 
lessly to alter what he had translated. It is wonderful how many ancient 
hymns have been made, in the translation, to bear a doctrinal sense accord- 
ing to the wish of the translator, not to be found, or certainly not neces- 
sarily requiring such a rendering, in carrying out the original meaning. 

But to proceed. I have no hesitation in saying that a good hymn-book, 
worthy of the Book of Common Prayer, could at the present time be 
compiled from the Greek and Latin hymns, which have long won the con- 
sensus of the whole Church ; arid, from the position they have already won 
in our own congregations, that many German hymns may be added ; with 



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well-known hymns of our Nonconformist divines — Doddridge, Baxter, 
and others ; while hymns of Toplady, Wesley, Heber, Milman, and Keble 
might truly find a place there, with others more modern still, though these 
last have hardly yet received a sufficient test of congregational approval. 
Hymns such as these should be at once enrolled in our authorised service 
books, not to be enforced with a rigid uniformity, to the exclusion of all 
others, but as a proof of the catholic and gospel teaching of our branch 
of Christ's Church, and as a testimony on her part to the importance of 
hymns as an essential part of the praises to Almighty God in the service 
books of the Church. 

Besides the hymns proper, proceeding from special incidents in the life 
of the Church, or of her individual members, and which may be divided 
into direct aspirations of praise or the outpourings of the truly penitent 
heart, there are: — 

1. Ascriptions of praise, after the model of the Revelation hymns, 
pouring forth a profession of faith, of which the noble Te Deum is the 
type. 

2. Paraphrases from Holy Scripture, including, of course, the Metrical 
Psalms ; and when these have been translated, with the full knowledge of 
the spirit and meaning of the sacred words, and have won the consent of 
the Church, they may be profitably accepted. Wesley's " Soldiers of 
Christ, arise," and " The Old Hundred," are types of these. 

3. Litany hymns are also much asked for, as suitable for mission ser- 
vices, with sermons. A careful selection of these might be made from the 
Paris Breviaries. 

4. Then come the narrative hymns, which might at first sight be cast 
aside as little better than doggerel if we did not remember the work they 
have done, and may be still capable of doing. They served in old times 
as the only way of making the people familiar with the Christian narra- 
tive; and, as good Bishop Hamilton used to say, they would be found 
equally useful now among the uninstructed masses of our people in the 
larger towns and parishes/ It would not be unwise to have one of the 
best of them for each season of the Christian year. 

5. Then come carols and that sort of hymns which at times have 
become favourites, but which, to my mind, should never get beyond an 
appendix, however popular they may be for a time : — " While shepherds 
watched ;" " Christians, awake ! salute the happy morn ;" " Hark, hark, 
my soul, angelic songs are swelling ;" and " O Paradise ! O Paradise !" 

In forming an authorised hymn-book there is, of course, much discre- 
tion required, lest, by being too exclusive, the broader teaching of the 



preface* xv 

Prayer Book be narrowed, and lest, by too careless an admission of hymns, 
the high character of our Book of Common Prayer for purity of language 
and composition may be marred. 

The work, if undertaken at all, must be with a determination to take 
the best hymns from all sources. There must be no attempt to make a 
book with hymns for every Sunday. Having enrolled the best extant 
hymns in her service book, the Church may be content to wait till the 
workings of God's Holy Spirit within her have given cause for new songs 
to be poured forth, and to be accepted by her congregations. 

It must, however, be evident to all, that it would be impossible to have 
an authorised book without allowing appendices to be freely added, so 
that the different hymn-books must be permitted for many years to come. 
This, I know, will be a disappointment to many who long for more per- 
fect uniformity ; but it obviates the great difficulty which vested rights and 
interests in existing hymn-books would otherwise throw in our way, and 
is an absolute necessity for the three reasons with which I venture to con- 
clude my paper. 

ist. Without allowing appendices, many hymns, favourites for a time, 
but which would not bear the tests I have enumerated, and others which, 
from old associations, the congregations would ask for, and which should 
never be finally admitted, would be inexorably forced upon us. 

2dly. It is impossible, at a period of great life in the Church, that we 
could submit to be bound down by a stricter uniformity. As a reviewer 
before quoted aptly puts it : — " The mind, even as toned and trained by 
grace, while gladly welcoming in the main the Church's prescription and 
yoke, fails not to appreciate a certain measure of liberty ; and experience 
shows that it is a matter of prudence on the part of those, on whom the 
settling of ritual forms devolves at any time, to provide at least some 
safety-valve for the expression of the religious mind of the day." 

And, 3rdly, If, as I hold, the essence of a hymn is to be inspired by the 
earnest communing of the writer with his God — if it is true that hymns 
have a life of their own, and express the views and character of the writer 
and of the age in which he lives — and if the one essential test of a hymn's 
admission into our Service Books is the consent of the Church to the use 
of it, — then it becomes absolutely a necessity that appendices be allowed, 
to receive fresh hymns from time to time ; for there must be many a new 
song unto the Lord, and new occasions for them must be ever arising, as 
the Church militant advances through trouble or through joy towards the 
final ingathering at the great marriage supper of the Lamb. 



xvi preface, 

LIST OF HYMNALS COLLATED IN THE 
ANNOTATIONS. 



Reference Word 
Letter. 

I. "Selections from the Psalms of David in metre; 
with Hymns suited to the Feasts and Fasts 
of the Church, and other occasions of Public 
Worship" (1832). This Hymnal, appended 
to the Prayer Book of the American Church, 

contains 124 psalms and 212 hymns Pr. Bk. 

II. "Psalms and Hymns;" edited by the Rev. W. J. 
Hall (1836); frequently called "The Mitre 
Hymn Book" It contains 181 psalms and 
220 hymns Hall. 

III. " Psalms and Hymns; " edited by the Rev. Charles 

Kemble, M. A. (1853). It contains 244 psalms 

and 624 hymns Kemble. 

IV. "The Church Psalter and Hymn Book;" edited 

by the Rev. William Mercer, M. A. {Oxford 
Edition, revised (1865). It contains 5 1 1 hymns. Mercer. 
V. "Psalms and Hymns;" published under the direc- 
tion of the Society for Promoting Christian 
Knowledge {Enlarged Edition, 1868). It con- 
tains 107 psalms and 490 hymns S. P. C. K. 

VI. " Psalms and Hymns for the Church, School and 
Home;" edited by the Rev. D. T. Barry, 
B. A. {Seventh Edition, 1867). It contains 

113 psalms and 355 hymns Barry. 

VII. " Church Hymnal" (1871). In general use in the 

Church of Ireland. It contains 280 hymns. . Irish. 
VIII. "The Sarum Hymnal;" edited by Earl Nelson 

and others (1868). It contains 320 hymns. . . Sarum. 

IX. " The Anglican Hymn Book;" edited by the Rev. 
Corbett Singleton, M. A. {Enlarged Edition, 
1 871). It contains 404 hymns Singleton. 



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Reference Word or 
Letter. 

X. "Hymns Ancient and Modern ;" edited by the 
Rev. Sir H. W. Baker and others (1861, 
Appendix, 1868). It contains 386 hymns. ... A. and M. 
XI. "The People's Hymnal (reissued 1868); published 

by J. Masters. It contains 600 hymns People's. 

XII. " Psalms and Hymns for Ptiblic Worship " (1870) ; 
edited by the Rev. H. V. Elliott, M. A. It 
contains 104 psalms and 409 hymns Elliott. 

XIII. "The Year of Praise" (1867); edited by the Very 

Rev. Henry Alford, D. D. It contains 326 
hymns Alford. 

XIV. " The Church Hymnal" (1867) ; published by Bell 

and Daldy. It contains 51 psalms and 238 

hymns Church. 

XV. "Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship — for 
Parish Churches in Islington " (1862). It con- 
tains 143 psalms and 248 hymns Islington. 

XVI. "Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship :" se- 
lected for some of the churches in Marylebone, 
chiefly under the auspices of the Rev. J. H. 

Gurney. It contains 300 hymns Marylebone. 

XVII. "The Church and Home Metrical Psalter and 
Hymnal; " edited by the Rev. William Win- 
die, M. A. It contains 150 psalms and 445 

hymns Windle. 

XVIII. " The Canterbury Hymnal; " edited by the Rev. 

R. H. Bayne, M. A. It contains 285 hymns . Canterbury. 

XIX. "The Congregational Hymn and Tune Book;" 
edited by the Rev. R. R. Chope, M. A. [En- 
larged Edition, 1862). It contains 300 hymns. Chope. 
XX. "Psalms and Hymns ;" edited by the Rt. Rev. 
Thomas B. Morrell, D. D., and the Rev. 
William Walsham How, M. A. [Enlarged 
Edition). It contains 26 psalms and 210 
hymns Morrell and How. 

XXI. "The Hymnal Noted" with the Appendix. It 

contains 357 hymns Hymnal Noted. 

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Reference Word or 
Letter. 



XXII. " The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common 
Prayer ;" edited by the Rev. E. H. Bicker- 
steth, M. A. (1870). It contains 400 hymns. . Bickersteth. 

XXIII. "The Hymnary; a Book of Church Song ;" edited 
by the Rev. William Cooke, M. A., and the 
Rev. Benjamin Webb, M. A. (1871). It con- 
tains 630 hymns Hymnary. 

XXIV* " The Book of Praise;" edited by Sir Roundell 

Palmer. It contains 447 hymns Palmer. 

XXV.* "Lyra Britannica ;" edited by the Rev. Charles 

Rogers, LL. D. It contains 660 hymns .... Rogers. 

*Nos. XXIV and XXV can hardly be regarded as Hymnals for Church, use, but 
are invaluable for reference concerning the text. 



In addition to the foregoing, all of which are Church works, several 
collections, which may be regarded as representative Hymnals of the 
respective religious bodies using them, have been consulted. It may thus 
be seen which of the hymns in this collection are adopted by other Com- 
munions. 

I. "Songs of the Sanctuary" (New York, 1870). 
This collection contains 1342 hymns, and is 
largely used in the Presbyterian Communion . . Presb. 
II. "The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book" (1859). It 
is used by the Congregationalists and contains 
1190 hymns Cong. 

III. "Hymns for. the use of the Methodist Episcopal 

Church" (1849). This is the only authorized 
collection among the Methodists, and contains 
1148 hymns Meth. 

IV. "The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book;" being the 

"Plymouth Collection" enlarged, and adapted 
to the use of Baptist Churches. It contains 

1518 hymns Bapt. 

V. "Hymns of the Church? The Hymnal in use in 
the Dutch Reformed Communion. It contains 
1007 hymns Ref. Ch. 



prelate, xix 

Besides the Hymnals collated, many books and reviews bearing upon 
the subject of Hymnody, have been consulted. The most important of 
these are the following : — 

" Singers and Songs of the Church;" by Josiah Miller, M. A. (London, 
(1869). 

"Hymns Ancient and Modern, with Annotations, Originals and Refer- 
ences ;" by the Rev. Louis Coutier Biggs, M. A. (1867). 

" Christ in Song ;" by the Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D. (1870). 

" Songs of the Spirit;" by the Rt. Rev. W. H. Odenheimer, D. D., and 
the Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A. (18 71). 

" The Christian Singers of Germany ;" by Miss Catherine Winkworth 
(1869). 

"Hymn Writers and their Hymns;" by the Rev. S. W. Christophers 
(1866). 

" English Hymnology" (" Monthly Packet" 1867); by the Rev. Louis 
Coutier Biggs, M. A. 

"English Hymns and Hymn Writers of the ijth and 1 8th Centuries" 
^Churchman's Shilling Magazine" 1871); by Charles Mackeson. 

" Notes on Hymnody" ^'Protestant Churchman" 1867); by the Rev. 
F. M. Bird, M. A. 

Alliborne's "Dictionary of Authors" (1870). 



N. B. — The date following the name signifies the time (if known) when the 
hymn was written, or first published : except that in some instances where 
such date is not known, the date of the author's death is given. 

It is to be noticed that very few of the Metrical Psalms are to be found in 
any of the collections except those which have the Psalms as a distinct 
feature. 

" The text is unaltered" signifies that so far as the editor knows, the text 
of the verses retained is without alteration. To quote from the '•''Hymnal 
Companion to the Book of Common Prayer'''': "The above qualifying 
words, l so far as the editor knows,' are of necessity added, as he has not 
been able in every case to consult the original. Nor, if he had been able, 
would the conclusion have been in all cases self evident. For authors have 
not seldom altered (and not always improved) their own hymns during their 
lifetime. Two or more versions are thus k original.' But when the editor has 
not had access to the author's own accredited copy, and a hymn is found in 
Sir R. Palmer's Book of Praise, or in Rogers' Lyra Britannica, one or other 
of these texts is assumed to be right." The editor of these annotations may 
add that he has had the benefit of notes by the Rev. F. M. Bird, in whose 
acquaintance with original versions of hymns he has great confidence. 

"This hymn is adopted by ," signifies that the Hymnals immediately there- 
after named, adopt either the hymn as in this collection, or its substance, in 
some cases with more, in others with fewer, verses ; and in the case of trans- 
lations, quite a variation in text is allowed. 

Titles are prefixed to the names of authors only in the " Index of Authors." 

The editor cannot flatter himself that these annotations are wholly free 
from errors ; and he will esteem it a great favour if any one, who, from more 
accurate knowledge, shall discover errors, will inform him of them, that they 
may be corrected in a subsequent edition. 



ANNOTATIONS. 



1. " Lo, He comes, with clouds descending" 

This hymn was written by Charles Wesley, and John Cennick : verses 
I, 2 and 5, by Wesley (1758), from his "Hymns of Intercession for All 
Mankind" ; verses 3 and 4 by Cennick (1752). It was probably altered 
by Martin Madan, in his compilation of a Judgment Hymn in 1760, (vide 
Roger's Ly. Brit., p. 675.) The text, as given by Bickersteth, has a few 
but unimportant deviations from the original as given by Rogers, and is 
the form in which it usually appears. The hymn is sometimes erroneously 
attributed to Olivers, who wrote the tune " Helmsley," to which it is often 
sung. 

Charles Wesley, the son of Samuel Wesley, was born at Epworth, Dec. 
18, 1708. He was educated at Westminster School and afterwards at 
Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M. A. In 1735, he took Orders 
and immediately proceeded with his brother John to Georgia, both being 
employed as missionaries of the S. P. G. He returned to England in 1736. 
For many years he engaged with his brother in preaching the Gospel. 
He died March 29, 1788. 

To Charles Wesley has been justly assigned the appellation of the " Bard 
of Methodism." His prominence in hymn writing may be judged from 
the fact that in the " Wesleyan Hymn Book," 623 of the 770 hymns were 
written by him ; and he published more than thirty poetical works, written 
either by himself alone, or in conjunction with his brother. The number 
of his separate hymns is at least five thousand. 

John Cennick was born at Reading, Berkshire, in the year 1717. He 
became acquainted with Wesley and Whitefield, and preached in the 
Methodist connection. On the separation of Wesley and Whitefield he 
joined the latter. In 1745, he attached himself to the Moravians, and made 
a tour in Germany to fully acquaint himself with the Moravian doctrines. 
He afterwards ministered in Dublin, and in the north of Ireland. He 
died in London, in 1755, and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery, Chel- 
sea. He was the author of many hymns, some of which are to be found 
in every collection. 



22 Annotations* 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; 
Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church ; 
Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell and How; 
Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



2. " The Lord will come ; the earth shall quake." 

Reginald Heber (1811). It is one of four hymns sent by him to the 
"Christian Observer" accompanied by a letter, having the signature " D. 
R.," complaining of the defects in existing Church hymns, such as the too 
familiar epithets applied to the Divine Being, and similar blemishes, and 
asking suggestions for improvement. The text is without alteration. 

Reginald Heber was the son of a father of the same name, and was 
born April 21, 1783, at Malpas, Cheshire, of which parish his father was 
then Rector. He commenced his collegiate career at Brasenose College, 
Oxford, in 1800. In 1802, he gained the Chancellor's prize for Latin hex- 
ameters, and the following year the gold medal for his poem on " Pales- 
tine." He graduated M. A, 1808. He soon after entered upon the living 
of Hodnet. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1815 ; in 1822, he wrote a life 
of Jeremy Taylor. He accepted the Bishopric of Calcutta, — to which he 
had been urged for some time, — in 1823. His diocese included more than 
the whole of India. He died at Trichinopoly, while on a visitation, April 
3, 1826. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Single- 
ton ; People's ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; 
Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; 
Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



3. " That day of wrath, that dreadful day." 

Walter Scott (1805) ; in his "Lay of the Last Minstrel"' Canto VI : v. 
xxxi., and is founded on the "Dies irae, Dies ilia" of Thomas of Celano 
(13th cent.). The text is unaltered except in verse 3, line 3, which is in 
the original, — 

" Be Thou the trembling sinner's stay." 

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771. In 1786, he 
commenced his apprenticeship as writer to the Signet. In 1796, he first 
appeared before the public in a translation of Burger's " William and 
Helen." Many poetical works followed, until in 1814, he began the series 
of " Waverly Novels" He died at Abbotsford, September 21, 1832. It 
is related that on his death-bed he distinctly repeated portions of the Latin 
original, upon which the above hymn is based. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K. ; Irish ; Sarum ; 
A. and M. ; Elliott ; Alford ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Bickersteth ; Hym- 
nary ; Palmer. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* 



Hosanna to the living Lord! 



23 



Reginald Heber (181 1); appearing first in the "Christian Observer" 
The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; 
Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church ; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Palmer. Also by Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



5. "Rejoice, rejoice, believers? 

Laurentius Laurenti (1700); translated by Jane Borthwick (1853), in 
" Hymns from the Land of Luther." The original has ten verses, six of 
which are in the translation. The fourth and fifth of the translated verses 
are here omitted. 

The following readings from the translation show the alterations in the 
text :— 

Verse 1, line 1, " Rejoice, all ye believers." 

Verse 2, line 3, "And wait for your salvation, 
" 4, The end of earthly toil." 

Verse 3, line 1, "Ye wise and holy virgins." 
" 3, " Till in songs of jubilee? 

Verse 4, line 8, "That brings us tmto Thee." 

Laurentius Laurenti was born in Germany in 1660, and died in 1722. 
He was director of the choir in the cathedral at Bremen. He wrote more 
than a hundred hymns characterized by spiritual unction and simplicity. 
The hymn here used is termed by Dr. Schaff, his best. 

Miss Jane Borthwick, the translator of this hymn and many others, is 
of Scottish family. Her sister (Mrs. Eric Findlater) and herself edited 
" Hymns from the Land of Luther" (1854). She also wrote "Thoughts 
for Thoughtful Hours" (1859), and has contributed numerous poetical 
pieces to the "Family Treasury? under the signature " H. L. L." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Alford ; Canterbury. Also 
by Presb. ; Ref. Ch. 



6. " The Lord unto my Lord thus spake? 

Nahum Tate, and Nicholas Brady (1696) ; Psalm ex., in "A New Ver- 
sion of the Psalms of David? The text was subsequently revised by the 
authors, and perhaps afterwards by others. The text of this hymn is 
unaltered, except that the last three lines are not found in the original. 

Nahum Tate was born in Dublin in 1652, and was educated there at 
Trinity College. His father, Faithful Teate, D. D., was a. voluminous 



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&nnotutions. 



writer of sacred poetry in the Elizabethan era. After completing his 
education, Nahum Tate (his name having taken an English form), went to 
live in London. He was the author of several pieces for the stage, and 
of many poems. He was poet-laureate from 1690 to his death in 1715. 
His chief work was the " Metrical Version of Psalms" which he exe- 
cuted in conjunction with Nicholas Brady. 

Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in 
Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ 
Church College, Oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He 
held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond 
Surrey, where he established a school. . Here he translated some of the 
Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were pub- 
lished, but his chief work, like that of his co-labourer Tate, was the " Met- 
rical Version of Psalms." 

This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since, 
that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hop- 
kins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, 
appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this 
version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says " It is nearly as 
inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the 
" Metrical Psalms " are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer 
Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of 
hymns. 

Says the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth ^Nottingham Church Congress Report" 
1871, p. 369), " I believe that the reasons urged by Sir Roundell Palmer 
against a systematic version of the Psalms are unanswerable. Wherever 
there is sufficient musical power in a congregation to chant them distinctly 
and efficiently, in my judgment, they ought to be chanted. Their name 
from ipdXlo, 'to sing to a harp,' indicates this. The Jewish Church sang 
them. Our Lord and His Apostles sang them. The Christian Church 
for 1800 years has sung as well as said them." 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall. 



7. "Thy kingdom -come, God" " 

L. Hensley; from the "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern^ 
(1868). The only alterations in the text are in verse I, line 2, where the 
original has " rule" instead of " reign," and in verse 2, line 1, " reign" 
instead of " rule." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



8. " Once more, Lord, Thy sign shall be" 

George Washington Doane (1859). This hymn is a portion of some 
verses on "The Two Advents." Lines altered in the text are as follows 
in the original : — 



Annotations* 25 

Verse I, line I, " Yet once again, Thy sign shall be." 
Verse 2, line 2, " O who shall understand." 
Verse 3, line 8, " Thy temple in the skies." 

For these particulars concerning this hymn the editor is indebted to the 
lamented author's son, the Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, D. D., the 
present Bishop of Albany. 

George W. Doane was born at Trenton, N. J., May 27, 1799. He grad- 
uated at Union College; was ordained in 1821 ; was Minister in Trinity 
Church, New York, 1821 ; Professor in Trinity College, 1824; Rector of 
Trinity Church, Boston, 1828 ; Bishop of New Jersey, 1832 ; died in Bur- 
lington, N. J., April 27, 1859. He published one volume of poetry 
(" Songs by the Way" 1824), and several volumes of sermons, and works 
of a similar nature. 

This hymn is not to be found in any of the collections examined. 



9. " Come, quickly come, dread Judge of ally 

Laurence Tuttiett ; in "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern" 
(1868). . The following readings from the version in that book, will show 
the few changes made in the text : — 

Verse 3, line 2, "For death is mighty all around? 
Verse 4, line 3, " And weakly souls begin to fall." 

And the words " quickly come," wherever they occur, are changed to 
" Come, quickly come." 

Laurence Tuttiett was born at Colyton, Devon, in 1825 ; was educated 
at Christ Hospital, and at King's College, London; ordained Deacon, 
1848, Priest, 1849; entered upon the living of Lea Marston, Coleshill, 
1854, and recently was appointed Curate of S. Paul's, Knightsb ridge, 
London. He is the author of several volumes and tracts. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



10. " Jesu, Thou art standing? 

William Walsham How; in " Supplement to Psalms and Hymns com- 
piled by the Revs. T. B. Morrell and W. W. How" (18 54). The lines 
altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line 4, " Shame on us, Christian brothers, 
" 5, His name and sign who bear." 

William Walsham How was born at Shrewsbury,in 1823. His educa- 
tion was pursued at Shrewsbury School, and afterwards at Wadham Col- 
lege, Oxford. He was appointed Curate of Kidderminster, 1845, and 
Rector of Whittington, 185 1. He is the author of several works. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. ; Hymnary. 



26 Annotations* 



11. "The Lord hath spoke, the mighty God' 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm 1. 
Adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall. 



12. " On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry'' 
(Jordanis oras praevia.) 

Translated from the Paris Breviary, by John Chandler, in "Hymns of 
the Primitive Church" (1837). The text is from " Hy?nns Ancient and 
Modern" where it is much altered, and one verse omitted. 

John Chandler studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating 
B. A. in 1827, and M. A. in 1830. He was ordained Deacon, 1831 ; 
Priest, 1832. He is now Vicar of Witley, Surrey, and Rural Dean. He 
has published several prose and poetical works. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Mercer ; Irish ; Sarum ; A. and M. ; 
People's ; Church ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnary. 



13. " come, O come, Emmanuel'' 
{Veni, veni, Emmanuel) 

Translated from a Latin hymn of the 12th century, by John Mason 
Neale, in the " Hymnal Noted '" (1851). Largely rewritten in "Hymn/ 
Ancient and Modern" from which the text is taken. "This Advent 
hymn is little more than a versification of some of the Christian Antiphons 
commonly called the O's." 

John Mason Neale, the son of the Rev. Cornelius Neale, was born in 
London, January 24, 1818. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 
B. A., 1840 ; M. A., 1845. Besides other rewards, he gained the Seatonian 
prize at Cambridge, for an English sacred poem, nine times between 1845 
and 1 86 1. He was ordained Deacon in 1841, and Priest in 1842 ; was 
Warden of Sackville College, East Grinsted, from 1846 to his death, 
August 6, 1866. At East Grinsted he founded the Nursing Sisterhood of 
S. Margaret's, and promoted the establishment of cottage hospitals. He 
was master of many languages, and his literary services received wide- 
spread recognition and honour. 

" We count Dr. Neale to have been the most elegant translator of poetry 
from any foreign language into English, and one of the first of our hym- 
nists, old and new." (F. M. Bird, in "Protestant Churchman" July 25, 
1867.) 

This hymn is adopted — with some variations in the text — by Singleton ; 
A. and M. ; People's ; Chope ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



Annotations* 27 

14. " Wisdom ! spreading mightily? 

The Advent Anthems. 

Safientia / Adonai ! Radix Jesu / Clavis David ! Oriens / 
Rex Gentium ! Emmanuel ! 

Translated by Earl Nelson and others, in the " Sarum Hymnal" (1868). 
The text is unaltered. These Antiphons, known as the " Greater Anti- 
phons," are given in the "Hymnal Noted" in prose. They are commonly 
called the O's, and were anciently sung at Vespers in the English Church 
from December 16 until Christmas Eve. Their number varies from seven 
to twelve. In the Roman Breviary there are seven. The old English 
Breviaries added two, and some of the French Breviaries, four. The 
Roman Breviary is generally followed in recent collections. 

Earl Nelson was born in 1823. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity 
College, Cambridge. He is a relative of England's greatest naval hero. 
An active layman, he has been of service to the Church in many of her 
religious and benevolent enterprises. In hymnology he has taken a 
prominent position ; his own hymns are most creditable, and he has been 
foremost in compiling the " Sarum Hymnal" a work of the best charac- 
ter. This hymnal was compiled in 1857, with the assistance of John 
Keble, at the request of the Bishop of Salisbury. Its first title was " The 
Salisbury Hymn Book? Its popularity was very great. In 1868 it was 
revised and is now known as " The Sarum Hymnal? Earl Nelson has 
also published a few other works, mostly of a devotional character. 

This Irymn is adopted by Sarum ; Church. 



15. "Hark! the glad sound, the Saviour comes? 

Philip Doddridge (1735). His hymns were published in 1755. This 
hymn was appended to a sermon preached Dec. 28, 1735. "A more 
sweet, vigorous, and perfect composition is not to be found, even in the 
whole body of ancient hymns." The only change from the original is in 
verse 2, line 2, where the word " his," is substituted for " its? One verse 
is omitted between the fifth and sixth. 

Philip Doddridge was born in London, in 1702. He was educated at 
various schools, and afterwards became the Congregational pastor at Kib- 
worth. In 1729, at the solicitation of friends he opened a training school 
in which to fit young men for the ministry. Dr. Doddridge was the author 
of many works, some of which have celebrity at the present day. Many 
of his hymns, of which there are in all 364, are ranked as among the best 
in our language. Montgomery says of them, " They shine in the beauty 
of holiness." He died in Lisbon, 1751. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's*; Elliott ; Alford ; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; 
Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



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16. "Hail! Thou long-expected Jesus!* 

Charles Wesley ; in " Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord" (1745). It 
is there printed in two eight-line verses. The lines altered in the text, 
are, in the original, as follows : — 

Verse I, line I, " Come! Thou long-expected Jesus." 

Verse 2, line 3, "Dear desire of every nation, 



Verse 3, line 2, 



Joy of every longing heart." 
Born a child, and yet a King." 



This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Barry ; Irish ; Single- 
ton ; People's ; Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Windle ; Bickersteth. Also 
by Presb. ; Cong. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



17. "Hark! the herald angels sing" 

Charles Wesley (1739). It is entitled " A Hymn for Christmas Day ," 
and originally appeared in "Hymns and Sacred jPoems." The original 
consists of ten verses. The verses of the text are the first five, which are 
in general use, and of which the following are the original: — 



Hark ! how all the welkin rings, 
Glory to the King of Kings ; 
Peace on earth, and mercy mild, 
God and sinners reconciled ! " 

Joyful all ye nations rise, 

Join the triumph of the skies ; 

Universal nature, say, 

Christ, the Lord, is horn to-day ! " 

Christ, by highest heaven adored ! 
Christ, the everlasting Lord ! 



Late, in time, behold Him come, 
Offspring of a Virgin's womb. 

Veil'd in flesh, the Godhead see ; 
Hail, the incarnate Deity, 
Pleased as man with men to appear ; 
Jesus, our Immanuel here I 

Hail, the heavenly Prince of Peace / 
Hail, the Sun of Righteousness I 
Light and life to all He brings, 
Risen with healing in His wings. 



This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell 
and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



18. " While shepherds watch 'd their flocks by nighty 

Nahum Tate (1703); in "Supplement to the New Version of Psalms T 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Alford ; Windle ; Chope ; 
Morrell and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 
Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



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19. " come, all ye faithful? 

{Adeste f deles.) 

A Latin hymn of uncertain authorship and date (probably ab. A. D. 
1500), though attributed to Bonaventura (13th cent.). Translated by the 
Rev. Frederic Oakeley, about 1.841 ; published in '■'■Lyra Catholica," 1848. 
This is the most popular of the translations of the "Adeste fideles:" that 
in Sarum is the most regular in structure. The text is altered in the first 
line, Oakeley's translation reading, — 

" Ye faithful, approach ye." 

Also in line 1, of verse 3, the original translation reading, — 

" Sing, choirs angelic." 

And in the last three lines of each verse, the Original has " worship" 
instead of " adore." 

Frederic Oakeley graduated M. A. at Oxford, and took Orders in the 
Church of England. He became Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, 
preacher at Whitehall, and incumbent of Margaret Chapel, London. He 
was active in the "Oxford Movement," and in 1845, called attention to 
his views for the purpose of seeing if he could continue to hold an Oxford 
degree, with so great a change in his opinions. The question was tried, 
and he was perpetually suspended unless he retracted. He then resigned 
his positions in the Church of England, and entered the Church of Rome, 
in which he is now a Priest, and Canon of the diocese of Westminster. 
His publications are numerous, and some of them have considerable 
value. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Irish ; Sarum ; Single- 
ton ; A. and M.; People's ; Church ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; 
Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



20. Hark ! what mean those holy voices? 

John Cawood (1800?). The text is that usually adopted, but it differs 
somewhat from the version given in "Lyra Britannica," and furnished for 
that work by Cawood's son. In the original there are six verses. The 
following lines are from the version referred to : — 

Verse I, line 2, " Sweetly warbling in the skies ? 
" 3, Sure th' angelic host rejoices, 
" 4, Loudest hallelujahs rise." 

Verse 4, line 2, " Heaven and earth His glory sing ! 
" 3, Glad receive Whom God appointed." 

Verse 5, line 2, " Learn His Name, and taste His joy." 



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Every verse is followed by a " Hallelujah," but this, and the sixth verse, 
are omitted in the usual collections. 

John Cawood was born in 1775, at Matlock, Derbyshire, where his 
father carried on a small farm. He enjoyed very limited educational 
advantages. At the age of eighteen he occupied a menial position. But 
seeking every opportunity of self improvement, and aided by those who 
interested themselves in his behalf, he was enabled in 1797 to enter S. 
Edmund Hall, Oxford, and obtained his B. A. in 1801, and his M. A. in 
1807. He was ordained in 1801, and most of his life in the ministry was 
spent as perpetual Curate of S. Ann's Chapel of Ease, Bewdley, Worces- 
tershire. He died in 1852. He published several prose works, but no 
volume of hymns or poems. His son says, " My father composed about 
thirteen hymns, which have one by one got into print, though never 
published by himself, or any one representing him." 

This hymn is adopted by Irish ; Singleton ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Mor- 
rell and How ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



21. " Christians, awake, salute the happy morn" 

John Byrom. The original is not divided into verses. In the text 
(as in usual collections), twelve lines are omitted. The following are 
original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 1, line 2, " Whereon the Saviour of the world was born." 

Verse 3, line 3, " The praises of redeeming love they sung, 

" 4, And heaven's whole orb with hallelujahs rung." 
" 6, " Peace upon earth, and mutual good-will." 

Verse 4, line I, " To Bethlehem straight the enlighten' d shepherds ran," 
" 6, "The first apostles of His infant fame? 

John Byrom was born in 1691, at Manchester, where his father was 
a linen-draper. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1708 ; became 
a Fellow of the College in 1714 ; took his M. A. in 1716, and then 
proceeded to Montpelier, where he studied medicine. He afterwards 
abandoned medicine, settled in London, and obtained his living by 
teaching a system of shorthand, which he had projected. He was elected 
a member of the Royal Society in 1724. He died Sept. 28, 1763. The 
first edition of Byrom's poems appeared in 1773, in two volumes. A 
more complete edition was published in 18 14. Byrom did not seek 
publicity as an author, but wrote verses only for recreation. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; A. and 
M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alfof d ; Church ; Windle ; Chope ; Morrell and 
How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Rogers. 



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22. "It came upon the midnight clear" 

Edmund Hamilton Sears (1850). A hymn " of very high merit." (Biggs.) 
The following are original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 3, line 1, "And ye beneath life's crushing load." 

Verse 4, line 2, "By prophet-bards foretold." 

" 4, " Comes round the age of gold; 

" 5, When Peace shall over all the Earth 

" 6, Its ancient splendors fling :" 

One verse (v. 3 in Schaff's "Christ in Song") is omitted. 

Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, in 
1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the 
Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor 
of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838 ; removed to Lancas- 
ter in 1840 ; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the 
active duties of the ministry in 1847 ; since then, residing in Wayland, he 
has devoted himself to literature. He has published several works. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K. ; Sarum ; Elliott ; Bickersteth ; 
Palmer. Also by Presb. ; Ref. Ch. 



23. "Shout the glad tidings, exultingly sing." 

William Augustus Muhlenberg (1826); appeared in the Collection of 
Hymns appended to the Prayer Book. The text is unaltered. 

William Augustus Muhlenberg is the son of the Rev. Dr. Henry 
Melchior Muhlenberg, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1742, and there 
founded the first Lutheran church over which he officiated as pastor. He 
was born Sept. 16, 1796; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 
1814; was ordained Deacon in 1817, and Priest in 1820; became associate 
Rector of S. James' Church, Lancaster, Penn., in 1823 ; subsequently 
established S. Paul's College, Flushing, L. I., which flourished greatly 
under his supervision. He became Rector of the Church of the Holy 
Communion, New York, in 1843 ; founded S. Luke's Hospital in 1855, 
and has presided over its management since its organization ; established 
S. Johnland — a home for various classes of the needy — in 1865. He is 
the author of several publications in prose and poetry. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Kemble. Also by Ref. Ch. 



24. "Angels, from the realms of glory? 

James Montgomery (1819) ; appearing in " CotterilVs Collection? " For 
comprehensiveness, appropriateness of expression, force, and elevation of 
sentiment, it may challenge comparison with any hymn that was ever 



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written in any language or country." (Miller.) The original consists of 
five verses, of which the last is here omitted. The text of the verses 
retained conforms to that in "Lyra Britannica." 

James Montgomery was born at Irvine, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Nov. 4, 
1771. His father was a Moravian preacher. In his seventh year, James 
was sent to a Moravian Seminary at Fulneck, in Yorkshire. While there, 
his parents died in the West Indies, whither they had gone as missionaries. 
After occupying several uncongenial situations, he became, in 1792, assist- 
ant to a bookseller in Sheffield. Here also he successfully conducted a 
local newspaper, which he edited for thirty-one years. The government 
looked with disfavour upon him on account of his liberal and tolerant 
views. For printing a song on the " Fall of the Bastile," he was fined 
and imprisoned three months. Subsequently he suffered a second impris- 
onment for publishing an account of a riot at Sheffield. His prison life 
was mostly spent in writing short poems, which appeared in 1797, under 
the title of "Prison Amusements" and was the first volume he published. 
His subsequent publications were very numerous, and included prose and 
poetry. 

Montgomery has been called the " Cowper of the 19th century." " To 
James Montgomery must ever be decreed the highest praise which either 
poet or prose-writer can deserve, — that of a steadfast, consistent, earnest, 
yet temperate advocacy of whatsoever is ' true, just, pure, lovely, or of good 
report.' " (Alliborne.) " He, of all the poets of this age, is in his poetry — 
and we believe, also out of it — the most religious man." (Prof. Wilson.) 
For an interesting account of Montgomery see Miller's "Singers and 
Songs of the Churchy 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Chope ; Mor- 
rell and How; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



25. "Come hither, ye faith fuiy 

(Adesle f deles.) 

An old Latin hymn (see No. 19) ; translated by the Rev. Edward Cas- 
wall (1848), and published in "Lyra Catholica." 

The following are original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse I, line 1, "0 come, all ye faithful," 
" 7, " O hasten ! O hasten !" 

Verse 2, line 3, " The womb of the Virgin." 

Verse 4, line 7, "Chasten! hasten!" 

Edward Caswall was born in 18 14, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his 
father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, 
and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The 
Art of Pluck" was published in 1835 ; it is still selling at Oxford, having 



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passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 
1839, Priest. He became perpetual Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. 
In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he 
joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congre- 
gation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He 
has published several works in prose and poetry. 

This translation of the "Adeste fideles " is adopted by Barry. 



26. "Calm on the listening ear of night? 

Edmund Hamilton Sears (1837); published in 1838, in "The Boston 
Observer" and in Greenwood's "Psalms and Hymns," The original has 
five eight-line verses. The author has lately altered the hymn ; but the 
changes do not affect the text of the verses here used except in verse 6, 
line 3, where "more" is substituted for "and." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



27. " To hail Thy rising., Sun of life." 

John Morrison (1781); "Scotch Paraphrase" No. 19. In nearly every 
collection in which this hymn is to be found, one verse, omitted in this 
collection, appears. It is as follows : 

" The race that long in darkness pined 
Have seen a glorious light ; 
The people dwell in day, who dwelt 
In death's surrounding night." 

The following are original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 1, line I, " To hail Thy rise, Thou better Sun" 
" 4, " The harvest-treasures home." 

Verse 2, line 2, "And quelled the oppressor's sway; 

" 3, Quick as the slaughtered squadrons fell 
" 4, In Midiarts evil day" 

Verse 3, line 1, " To us a Child of hope is born, 
" 2, To us a Son is given." 

Verse 4, line 4, " The great and mighty Lord." 

John Morrison was born in the County of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1749. 
He studied for the ministry, and in 1780, was settled over the parish of 
Canisbay, Caithnes-shire. In his early life he contributed verses to the 
"Edinburgh Weekly Magazine." He was appointed one of the General 
Assembly's Committee for revising the Church Paraphrases. He published 
a translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's iEneid. He died 
at Canisbay, June 12, 1798. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Irish ; 
Singleton; A. and M.; Alford; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. 
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28. " A few more years shall roll." 

Horatius Bonar (1856); published under the name of "A Pilgrim's 
Song," in " Hymns of Faith arid Hope" (First Series). The original con- 
sists of six verses, the fifth of which is omitted in this Hymnal. In other 
respects the text is without alteration. 

Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was 
obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He 
was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at 
Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation 
as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso 
Tracts" of which he was the author. He has also written many other 
prose works, some of which have had very large circulation. Nor is he less 
favourably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series 
of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Canterbury ; 
Bickersteth. Also by Cong. ; Ref. Ch. 



29. " God, our help in ages past." 

Isaac Watts (1719): Psalm xc. A writer in the " Oxford Essays" 
(1858) regards this as Watts' finest paraphrase. The original consists of 
nine verses, of which the fourth, sixth, and eighth are omitted in this col- 
lection. The verses retained are altered only in the lines of which the 
following are the originals : — 

Verse 1, line 1, " Our God, our help in ages past." 
Verse 6, line 3, "Be Thou our guard while troubles last. ' 

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southamp- 
ton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in 
childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing 
respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to 
London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Inde- 
pendent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Inde- 
pendent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 
1 712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence 
of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home 
for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his 
health, and for the prosecution of his literary labours. He did not retire 
from ministerial duties, but preached as often as his delicate health would 
permit. 

The number of Watts' publications is very large. His collected works, 
first published in 1720, embrace sermons, treatises, poems and hymns. 
His "Home Lyricae" was published in December, 1705. His "Hymns" 



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appeared in July, 1707. The first hymn he is said to have composed for 
religious worship, is "Behold the glories of the Lamb" written at the age 
of twenty. It is as a writer of psalms and hymns that he is everywhere 
known. Some of his hymns were written to be sung after his sermons, 
giving expression to the meaning of the text upon which he had preached. 
Montgomery calls Watts "the greatest name among hymn-writers," and 
the honour can hardly be disputed. His published hymns number more 
than eight hundred. 

Watts died November 25, 1748, and was buried at Bunhill Fields. A 
monumental statue was erected in Southampton, his native place, and 
there is also a monument to his memory in the South Choir of Westmin- 
ster Abbey. " Happy," says the great contemporary champion of Angli- 
can orthodoxy, "will be that reader whose mind is disposed, by his verses 
or his prose, to imitate him in all but his non-conformity, to copy his 
benevolence to men, and his reverence to God." ("Memorials of West- 
minster Abbey," p. 325.) 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Irish ; Singleton ; 
A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; 
Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 
Also by Presb. ; Meth. ; Bapt. 

30. " The God of life, Whose constant care" 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). The text of this hymn is unaltered from 
that in the Prayer Book Collection. The hymn seems to be made up of 
two separate and disconnected hymns of the author, viz. : Verses 1 and 2, 
are from his 134th hymn, verses 5 and 6 ; and verses 3, 4 and 5, are from 
the same verses of his 310th hymn. The latter bears date, January 2, 
1 736-7. The following is the original version of the verses which make 
up the text : — 

God of my life, Thy constant care No groans to mingle with the songs 

With blessings crowns each opening year, Which warble from immortal tongues. 
This guilty life dost Thou prolong, 
And wake anew my annual song. No rude alarms of raging foes ; 

No cares to break the long repose ; 
Thy children eager to be gone, No midnight shade, no clouded sun, 

Bid time's impetuous tide roll on But sacred, high, eternal noon. 

And land them on that blooming shore 
Where years and death are known no more. O long-expected day ! begin ; 

Dawn on these realms of woe and sin ; 
No more fatigue, no more distress, Fain would we leave this weary road, 

Nor sin, nor hell, shall reach the place ; And sleep in death, to rest with God. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 

31. " While with ceaseless course- the sun!' 

John Newton (1779) ; from the "Olney Hymns" Most of the collec- 
tions adopting this hymn use but four verses of four lines each. The text 
is unaltered, except that in verse 2, line 7, the original has " upwards " 
instead of " upward." 



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John Newton was born in London, July 24, 1725. His mother died 
when he was seven years old. In his eleventh year he accompanied his 
father, a sea captain, on a voyage. For several years his life was one of 
dissipation and crime. He was disgraced while in the navy. Afterwards 
he engaged in the slave trade. Returning to England in 1748, the vessel 
was nearly wrecked in a storm. This peril forced solemn reflection upon 
him, and from that time he was a changed man. It was six years, how- 
ever, before he relinquished the slave trade, which was not then regarded 
as an unlawful occupation. But in 1754, he gave up sea-faring life, and 
holding some favourable civil position, began also religious work. In 
1764, in his thirty-ninth year, he entered upon a regular ministry as the 
Curate of Olney. In this position he had intimate intercourse with 
Cowper, and with him produced the "Olney Hymns" In 1779, Newton 
became Rector of S. Mary Woolnoth, in London, in which position he 
became more widely known. It was here he died, Dec. 21, 1807. His 
published works are quite numerous, consisting of sermons, letters, devo- 
tional aids, and hymns. He calls his hymns " The fruit and expression of 
his own experience." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; 
Alford; Islington ; Windle ; Palmer. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; 
Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



32. " The ancient law departs? 
{Debilis cessent elementa legist) 

From the Paris Breviary ; translated by the compilers of "Hymns 
Ancient and Modern " (1861). In that Hymnal there are five verses, two 
of which are omitted in this collection. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; A. and M. Also by Ref. Ch. 



33. "jfesus! Name of wondrous love." 

William Walsham How (1854). The text is from "Psalms and Hymns," 
compiled by Morrell and How, unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Sarum ; Singleton ; Alford ; 
Chope ; Morrell and How. 



34. " Hail to the Lord's Anointed" 

James Montgomery (1822); Psalm 72. The original contains eight 
eight-line verses, of which the third, fifth, sixth, the last half of the 
seventh, and the first half of the eighth, are here omitted. The verses 
retained are those usually found in collections. Lines which are altered 
are as follows in the original : — 



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Verse 3, line I, " He shall come down like showers." 
" 3, "And love, joy, hope, like flowers." 

Verse 4, line I, "For Him shall prayer unceasing." 

It is said that this most admirable hymn was repeated by the poet at 
the close of a speech at a missionary meeting. Dr. Adam Clarke, who was 
presiding, begged a copy of it, and put it, with the Psalm of which it is a 
rendering, in his "Commentaries." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Alford ; Marylebone ; 
Windle ; Canterbury ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



35. "How wondrous and great." 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826) ; printed in the Prayer Book Collec- 
tion. The text is unaltered. 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk was born in New York, in 1789. After his 
ordination he held various parochial cures, until he was consecrated 
Bishop, at Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1827, as assistant to Bishop White, of 
Pennsylvania. He was the author of several prose works and some 
hymns. He died Dec. 6, 1858. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



36. "Rise, crown 'd with light, imperial Salem, rise." 

Alexander Pope (d. 1744); from "Messiah, a Sacred Fclogue." The 
following are original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse I, line 2, " Exalt thy towery head and lift thy eyes." 

Verse 3, line 4, "And Tieaped with products of Sabean springs :" 

Verse 4, line 1, " The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay." 
" 4, " Thy realm forever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns." 

The second couplet of the first verse is transposed to that place from 
another portion of the poem. 

Alexander Pope was born in London, in 1688. His parents were Roman 
Catholics. He had a feeble constitution, was deformed in person, and 
attained the age of only fifty-six. He early acquired the means of inde- 
pendence by his literary gifts, and purchased his celebrated villa at Twick- 
enham, whither he went to reside at the age of thirty. Of his many 
published works, his translation of the "Iliad" and " Odyssey " of Homer 
has given him the greatest reputation. As an English satirist, also, he 
stands very high. Nearly all his works, however, are imitations. He 
died at Twickenham, in 1744. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Cong. ; Bapt. 



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37. "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning? 

Reginald Heber (1811). The only alteration of the text is in verse 3, 
line 4, where the original has "or" in the place of " and." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Irish ; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Windle ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; 
Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



l Zo/ hilts and mountains shall bring forth? 

The text is slightly altered. 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxxii 
Adopted by Pr. Bk. ; S. P. C. K. 



39. "Light of those whose dreary dwelling? 

Charles Wesley (1745); published in " Hymns for the Nativity of our 
Lord? The original consists of three eight-line verses ; the text omits the 
second half of the first two verses. Other alterations will be observed 
from the following version which is the original of the verses in the text : — 



Light of those whose dreary dwelling 
Borders on the shades of death, 

Come, and by Thy Love's revealing 
Dissipate the clouds beneath. 

Still we wait for Thine appearing ; 

Life and joy Thy beams impart, 
Chasing all our fears ■, and cheering 

Every poor benighted heart. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; 
Irish ; People's ; Elliott ; Church ; 
Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



Save us in Thy great compassion 
O Thou mild pacific Prince I 
. Give the knowledge of salvation, 
Give the pardon of our sins. 

By Thy all-restoring merit, 
Every burthened soul release ; 

Every weary, wandering spirit, 
Guide into Thy perfect peace. 

Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; 
Islington ; Windle. Also by Presb. ; 



40. " Joy to the world! the Lord is co?ne? 

Isaac Watts (1719). He offers it as "Psalm 98, Part 2." The text is 
unaltered except that the original has in verse 2, line 1, " earth " instead 
of "world." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Elliott ; Islington ; Maryle- 
bone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also by Presb. ; 
Cong. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



41. " The Name of our God? 

Metrical Version of Psalm lxxvi. Its origin is unknown to the editor. 
It is adopted by the Pr. Bk. 



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42. " Hark ! the song of jubilee!: 



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James Montgomery (1819) ; in " Cotteriirs Collection" The only altera- 
tions are in two lines of which the foUowing are the originals : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " From the depths unto the skies." 
" 5, "See Jehovah's banner furled." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Irish ; 
Sarum ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth. Also by 
Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 

43. " Watchman ! teK us of the night? 

James Bowring (1825); from his "Hymns" a sequel to "Matins and 
Vespers" The following is the original reading of the only line that is 
altered in the text : — 

Verse 1, line 6, "Aught of hope or joy foretell?" 

James Bowring was born at Exeter, in 1792. He possessed at an early 
age a remarkable power of attaining languages, and acquired some repu- 
tation by his metrical translations of foreign poems. He became editor of 
" Tne Westminster Review" in 1825, and was elected to Parliament in 
1835. In 1849, he was appointed Consul at Canton, and in 1854, was 
made Governor of Hong Kong, and received the honour of knighthood. 
He is the author of some important works on politics and travel, and is 
the recipient of several testimonials from foreign governments and socie- 
ties. His poems and hymns have also added to his reputation. His 
" Matins and Vespers " have passed through many editions. In religion 
he is a Unitarian. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; 
Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 

44. "How beauteous are their feet? 

Isaac Watts (1709) : hymn 10 of his First Book. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; 
Barry; Irish; Singleton; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; Windle; 
Canterbury ; Bickersteth. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. 
Ch. 

45. " As with gladness men of old." 

William Chatterton Dix (i860), and contributed to "Hymns Ancient 
and Modern" (1861). Sir Roundell Palmer commends this hymn, and 
takes it " as a proof that the power of producing good hymns is not want- 
ing in our own times." The text is unaltered. 



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William Chatterton Dix was born at Bristol, in 1837. Was educated at 
the Bristol Grammar School, and trained for mercantile life. He now 
resides in Glasgow holding an appointment in a Marine Insurance office. 
He has published some sacred and other lyrics in " The Western Daily 
Press" and is the author of a small volume of poetry. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; Sarum ; Single- 
ton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; Morrell and How ; Bicker- 
steth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Ref. Ch. 



46. " When marshalVd on the nightly plain? 

Henry Kirke White (d. 1806). The original consists of six verses, two 
of which, the third and fourth, are here omitted. The text of the remain- 
ing verses is altered only in the tenses of the verbs ; alterations made 
necessary by the omission of the two verses. 

Henry Kirke White was born of humble parentage, at Nottingham, in 
1785. As a lad, at the age of 14, he was a weaver's apprentice ; a year 
or two later he entered an attorney's office. Even in his youthful years, 
and in these laborious positions, he showed his natural powers, and 
acquired considerable local reputation for his poetical gifts. In 1802, he 
published a volume of his poems, which received the commendation of 
the poet Southey. At first, much inclined to skepticism, he at length was 
led to a religious life, and was possessed with a desire to -study for the 
Church. He went to Cambridge for that purpose. There he distin- 
guished himself, but his naturally feeble constitution gave way under the 
severity of his application, and he died October 19, 1806, in his twenty- 
first year. Southey's memoir, " The Remains of Henry Kirke White" 
has long been a favourite with the Christian public. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Elliott ; Bickersteth ; Rogers. Also 
by Presb. ; Cong. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



47. " Sons of men, behold from far y 

Charles Wesley (1 739) ; from "Hymns and Sacred Poems y One verse — 
the second in the original — is here omitted. Other alterations will appear 
by comparison of the following original lines with the text : — 

Verse 2, line I, " Mild He shines on all beneath." 

Verse 3, fine I, " Nations all, far ^and near." 

Verse 4, line 2, " Pouring eye-sight on your eyes 
" 3, " God in His own light survey." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Sarum ; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Alford ; Islington ; Chope ; Bickersteth. Also by 
Presb.; Bapt. 



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48. " Once more the solemn season calls." 
(Solemne nos jejunii) 

From the Paris Breviary. This translation is founded on John Chand- 
ler's (1837); rewritten and much improved in "Hymns Ancient and 
Modern " (1861). The text is from that Hymnal, unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; Sarum ; A. andM.; Church; Chope; 
Morrell and How. Also by Ref. Ch. 

49. "Forty days and forty nights." 

George Hunt Smyttan (1856); first appeared in the "Penny Post" 
(vol. vi., p. 60), under "Poetry for Lent" and contained nine verses. It 
was altered by the author in 1856, and appears in "Hymns Ancient and 
Modern " (1861), from which the text is taken. One verse — the second in 
A. and M. — is omitted. 

George Hunt Smyttan studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 
and graduated B. A. 1845. He was ordained Deacon in 1848, Priest in 
1849, an d appointed Rector of Hawksworth in 1850. He has published 
some small volumes of poetry. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; 
Alford ; Hymnary. 

50. " In mercy, not in wraths 

" This Metrical Psalm is involved in a little uncertainty. It is apparently 
from John Newton (1779), but is really an original version." {Bird.) 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Barry. 



51. "Thy chastening wrath, Lord, restrain." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxviii. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Church; Islington. 

52. " Thou, Lord, by strictest search hast known." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxxix. 

Adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Singleton 
Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Morrell and How. 



53. " Saviour, when in dust to Thee." 

Robert Grant (1815) ; and appeared in the " Christian Observer," under 
the signature of " E — y., D. R." After his death, his brother published 
twelve of his poetical pieces in a volume entitled " Sacred Poems." This 



42 Annotations* 

hymn is No. 2 of that collection. Few hymns have been more altered in 
the various collections, than this. The late Lord Glenelg, brother of the 
author, greatly complained of the alterations made in it. " Later com- 
pilations, however, generally recur to the beautiful original." (Bickersteth?) 
The whole of the original hymn is given below, that the alterations in the 
text may be seen. 

Saviour, when in dust to Thee, By the anguish' d sigh that told 

Low we bend th' adoring knee ; Treachery lurked within Thy fold, 

When, repentant, to the skies From Thy seat above the sky, 

Scarce we lift our streaming eyes ; Hear our solemn Litany ! 
O, by all Thy pains and woe, 

Suffered once for man below, By Thine hour of dire despair, 

Bending from Thy throne on high, By Thine agony of prayer, 

Hear our solemn Litany ! By the cross, the nail, the thorn, 

Piercing spear , and torturing scorn^ 

By Thy helpless infant years, By the glootn that veiled the skies 

By Thy life of want and tears, O er the dreadful sacrifice, 

By Thy days of sore distress Listen to our humble cry, 

In the savage wilderness, Hear our solemn Litany ! 
By the dread mysterious hour 

Of the insulting tempter's power ; By Thy deep expiring groan ; 

Turn, O turn a favouring eye ; By the sad sepulchral stone ; 

Hear our solemn Litany ! By the vault, whose dark abode 

Held in vain the rising God ; 

By the sacred griefs that wept O / frojn earth to heaven restored, 

O er the grave where Lazarus slept ; Mighty reascended Lord, 

By the boding tears that flow'd Listen, listen to the cry, 

Over Salem's lov'd abode ; Of our solemn Litany ! 

Robert Grant, the son of Charles Grant, an eminent philanthropist and 
statesman, was born in 1785. He studied at Magdalen College, Cam- 
bridge, graduating in 1806. He became a member of the English bar in 
1807; entered Parliament in 1826; made Privy Councillor in 1831; 
appointed Governor of Bombay in 1834. He died in India, July 9, 1838. 
He published some works on the government of India, and also several 
hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Church ; 
Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; 
Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; 
Meth. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



54. " Sinners ! turn, why will ye die?" 

Charles Wesley (1 741): in " Hymns on God's Everlasting Love!' The 
only alterations in the text are, that the word "ye" is in several places 
substituted for "you;" and the present reading of verse 2, line 4, is sub- 
stituted for the original, which is, — 

" Died Himself that you might live." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hymnary. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; 
Meth. ; Ref. Ch. 



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55. "My soul with patience waits y 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxx. Rewritten (1703). "It originally 
began ' My soul does with impatience wait.' " {Bird.) 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Church; 
Islington. 



56. " How oft, alas! this wretched heart" 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The text is unaltered. 

Anne Steele was born at Broughton, Hampshire, in 1717. Her father 
was a merchant, and at the same time officiated as the unsalaried pastor of 
the Baptist Society at Broughton. Miss Steele was delicate from child- 
hood, and often a great sufferer, being confined to her room much of her 
life. She devoted the profits of her publications to charitable objects. 
She died at Broughton, in 1778. The most complete and accurate edition 
of her poetical works is that of Sedgwick (London, 1863). 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt; Ref. 
Ch. 

57. "My God, permit me not to be." 

Isaac Watts (1709): being Hymn 122 of his Second Book. The origi- 
nal has four verses, of which the last is omitted in this collection. The 
following are original readings of altered lines : — 

Verse 2, line 4, "And let my God, my Saviour go?" 

Verse 3, line 2, " One sovereign word can draw me thence." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Elliott. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

58. " Hasten, sinner / to be wise." 

Thomas Scott (i773)- It is the twenty-third piece in his "Lyric Poems, 
etc." and has four verses. Subsequently it appeared in " Rippon's Selec- 
tion" with the metre lengthened, and a fifth verse added. 

The following are original readings of the lines altered in the text : — 

Verse I, line 3, "Longer wisdom you despise 
" 4, Harder is she to be won." 

Verse 3, line 1, " Hasten, sinner, to return." 

Thomas Scott was born at Norwich, and was the son of a Dissenting 
minister. After his education he began his ministerial life at Wartmeil, 
in Norfolk, adding also the labours of school-teaching. Subsequently he 



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changed his pastoral relations several times, spending the last years of his 
life at Hup ton, in Norfolk, where he died in 1776. He was the author 
of some prose works, several poems, and a few hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Canterbury. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



59. " Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleepy 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826) : appearing in the Prayer Book Col- 
lection. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



60. " Have mercy, Lord, on me." 

Tate and Brady (1696) : Psalm li. The text is unaltered. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S.P.C.K.; Barry; 
Singleton; Sarum; A. and M.; Church; Windle; Chope ; Morrell and 
How; Hymnary. 

61. "As o'er the past my memory strays :" 

Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (d. 1822). The text is unaltered. 

Thomas Fanshaw Middleton was the son of the Rev. Thomas Middle- 
ton, and was born at Redelston, Derbyshire, in 1769. He studied at 
Christ's Hospital, London, and afterwards at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 
where he graduated with honours, in 1792. He was ordained in 1793, 
and became Curate of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He became Rector 
of Tansor, Northamptonshire, in 1795. In 1799, he became Curate of S. 
Peter's, Mancroft, Norwich, and in 1802, Rector of Bytham, Lincolnshire. 
He took his degree of D. D., at Cambridge. In 1812 he was made Arch- 
deacon of Huntingdon. In 181 1, he became Vicar of S. Pancras, Lon- 
don. In 1 8 14, he was appointed the first English Bishop of Calcutta. 
During the few years of his Episcopal life, he did much in the study of the 
Oriental tongues. He died, July 8, 1822. Bishop Middleton's most cele- 
brated work is " The Doctrine of the Greek Article applied to the Criticism 
and Illustration of the New Testament." It was published in 1808, and 
posthumous editions have been issued. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Windle ; Palmer. 



62. " Thou to Whose all-searching sight." 

Translated from the German of Gerhard Tersteegen (d. 1769) by John 
Wesley (1739). The text (from Rogers' "Lyra Britannica ") is unaltered. 

Gerhard Tersteegen was born in Westphalia. His father was a trades- 
man. Gerhard was in his early years a ribbon-weaver, but he rose to be 



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a teacher and preacher. He was well known as a philanthropist, whose 
house, called the " Pilgrim's Cottage," was a resort for multitudes who 
sought his companionship or aid. He has been called " the greatest poet 
of the mystical school of the 17th and 18th centuries." He died in 1769. 

John Wesley, the son of Samuel, and brother of Charles Wesley, was 
born at Ep worth, June 17, 1703. He was educated at the Charterhouse, 
London, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a Fellow of Lincoln 
College, Oxford, and graduated M. A. in 1726. At Oxford, he was one of 
the small band consisting of George Whitefield, James Hervey, Charles 
Wesley, and a few others, who were even then known for their piety ; 
they were deridingly called. " Methodists." After his ordination he went, 
in 1735, on a mission to Georgia. The mission was not successful, and he 
returned to England in 1738. From that time, his life was one of great 
labour, preaching the Gospel, and publishing his commentaries and other 
theological works. He died in London, in 1791, in his eighty-eighth 
year. His prose works are very numerous, but he did not write many 
useful hymns. It is to him, however, and not to his brother Charles, that 
we are indebted for the translations from the German. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Elliott; Alford; Islington; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also 
by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



63. "Lord, in this Thy mercy's day." 

Isaac Williams (1840) ; from "The Baptistery, or the Way of Eternal 
Life, in Verse." The text, which is from Bickersteth, varies somewhat 
from the original, as will be seen by the following comparison. 

Lord, in this Thy Mercy's day, By Thy night of agony, 

Ere it pass for aye away, By Thy supplicating cry, 

On our knees we fall and pray. By Thy willingness to die, 

Holy Jesu, grant me tears, By Thy tears of bitter woe 

• Fill me with heart-searching fears, For Jerusalem below, 

Ere that awful doom appears. Let us not Thy love forego. 

Supplication on us pour, ''Neath Thy wings let us have place ', 

Let us now knock at the door, Lest we lose this day of grace, 

Ere it close for evermore. Ere we shall behold Thy face. 

Love of God shall stand alone, 
A nd that love, it shall be known 
By the deeds that we have done. 

Isaac Williams was born in London, in 1802. His father was a barrister. 
The son studied at Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained the prize for 
Latin verse. He graduated B. A. 1826, M. A. 1831, and B. D. 1839. He 
was ordained Deacon in 1829, and Priest in 183 1. His clerical appoint- 
ments were Windrush (1829), S. Mary the Virgin's, Oxford (1832), and 
Bisley (1 842-1845). He was Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1832 
to 1842. During the last twenty years of his life his health was so poor 



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as to permit but occasional ministerial services. He died in 1865. He 
was the author of some prose writings, amongst which are Nos. 80, 
86 and 87 of the " Oxford Tracts." His commentaries are favourably 
known. He also published quite a large number of poems and hymns 
and translations. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; 
A. and M.; Elliott; Church; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell and How; 
Bickersteth; Hymnary. 



64. "My sins, my sins, my Saviour /" 

John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1863); from his "Hymns of Love and 
Praise for the Church's Year." The text is unaltered. 

John S. B. Monsell was born at Derry, in 1811. His father was Arch- 
deacon of Derry, and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral. The son 
studied at Trinity College, Dublin; was ordained Deacon in 1834, an <l 
Priest in 1835. He graduated at Dublin, B. A., 1832 ; LL. D., 1856. 
He was Rector of Ramoan and Chancellor of the diocese of Connor. 
Since 1853 he has been Vicar of Egham. He has published several works 
of prose and poetry, some of which have had large sale. 

This hymn is adopted by People's. 



65. " Thou, from Whom all goodness flows." 

Thomas Haweis (1792) ; from his " Carmina Christo." The original has 
six four-line verses, and has not the Doxology which appears in the text. 
The following are original readings of the lines which are altered : — 

Verse 1, line 5, " When groaning on my burdened heart." 
" 7, ' ' My pardon grant, Thy peace impart." 

Verse 2, line 1, " Temptations sore obstruct my way." 

" 3, " Oh give me strength, Lord, as my day." 

" 5, " Distressed with pain, disease, and grief, 

" 6, " This feeble body see" 

Verse 4, line 1, " The hour is near ; consigned to death 
" 2, I own the just decree, 

" 3, " Saviour" with my last parting breath, 
" 4, I'll cry, "Remember me." 

Thomas Haweis was born at Truro, Cornwall, in 1732, and was edu- 
cated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where, in 1772, he took his degree 
of LL. B. He was Curate at Oxford ; assistant preacher at the Lock 
Hospital, London ; Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon ; and became 
Rector of All Saints, Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, in 1764. This 
incumbency he held till his death in 1820, a period of fifty-six years. He 



was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. He was the 
author of several prose and poetical works. The enlarged edition of 
"Carmina Chrislo," published in 1808, contains 256 hymns by the author. 
The following extract from the preface of this work seems very applicable 
at the present day : — " Even in our public worship the voice of joy and 
gladness is too commonly silent, unless in that shameful mode of psalmody 
now almost confined to the wretched solo of a parish clerk, or to a few 
persons huddled together in one corner of the church, who sing to the 
praise and glory of themselves, for the entertainment, or oftener for the 
weariness of the rest of the congregation — an absurdity too glaring to be 
overlooked, and too shocking to be ridiculous." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Islington; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bicker- 
steth ; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



66. " gracious God, in Whom I live" 

Miss Anne Steele (1760) ; from a hymn of six verses, beginning, "Alas, 
what hourly dangers rise." The first two verses of the original are here 
omitted. Otherwise the hymn is unchanged. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Irish. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



67. " Weary of earth, and laden with my sins." 

Samuel John Stone (1866) ; from "Lyra Fidelium : Twelve Hymns on 
the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed." "A little volume of merit 
and importance." (Bird: "Songs of the Spirit, p. 595.") The original 
of this hymn has eight verses, of which two, the sixth and eighth, are here 
omitted. Two lines in the verses retained are altered, the original read- 
ing as follows : — 

Verse 3, line 2, " Seems evil ever with me, day by day." 

" 4, " Repent, confess, and thou art loosed from all." 

Mr. Stone is Curate of Windsor. He is the author of the hymn sung 
in S. Paul's Cathedral, Feb. 27, 1872, at the service of Thanksgiving for 
the Prince of Wales' recovery from sickness. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Hymnary. 



68. " Christian ! dost thou see them" 

(Oil -yap filkiTEiQ rovg TapdrTovrac.) 

A Greek hymn of S. Andrew of Crete [d. 732), translated by John 
Mason Neale (1862): in "Hymns of the Eastern Church!' The text of 
the first two verses is that of Sarum, and differs from Neale's translation 



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in a few instances. The following lines are from Neale's translation, and 
can be compared with the corresponding lines in the text : — 

Verse I, line 2, " How the troops of Midian 

" 3, Prowl and prowl around." 

" 7, " Smite them by the merit 

" 8, Of the holy Cross." 

Verse 2, line 7, " Smite them by the virtue 
" 8, Of the Lenten Fast." 

S. Andrew of Crete was born at Damascus about the year 66o. He 
took Orders in the Church at an early age. In 712, he took part in the 
pseudo-Council at Constantinople, by which the Monothelite heresy was 
re-affirmed. Afterwards he returned to the Faith of the Church. Some of 
his poetical books, and a number of his homilies are preserved. He died 
about 732. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; A. and M.; People's; 
Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



69. "Lord, when we bend before Thy throned 

Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1805). The original consists of three eight-line 
verses, and appeared first in "Poems, suggested chiefly by scenes in Asia 
Minor, Syria, etc." This hymn is one of three religious pieces at the end 
of the volume. The second, verse of the original is here omitted. The 
text of the verses retained is unaltered except that line 3 of verse 2 has, 
in the original, " then " instead of " and." 

Joseph Dacre Carlyle was born at Carlisle, in 1759. He became Profes- 
sor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, in 1794, and a'fter wards 
Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was the author of several works. His 
death occurred in 1804. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; Isling- 
ton ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Rogers. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



70. "Weary of wandering from my God." 

Charles Wesley (1 749) ; in "Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1 749, vol. 1 ." The 
original has five verses, the last two of which are here omitted. The text 
is unaltered, except that in line 4 of verse I the word " Thee " has been 
substituted for "Him," in the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; Barry ; Elliott ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



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71. " With broken heart and contrite sigh." 

Cornelius Elven (1852) ; " written with other hymns to be used with the 
Revival Sermons, then being preached to his own congregation." The 
text is unaltered. 

Cornelius Elven was born in 1797, and is a Baptist minister at Bury S. 
Edmund's, Suffolk, where he has been for forty-seven years. He has not 
published any works in prose or poetry, but has contributed numerous 
articles to periodicals. 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



72. "All glory, laud, and honour" 

{Gloria, laus et honor.) 

A hymn of S. Theodulph, translated by John Mason Neale (185 1), in 
" The Hymnal Noted." In that collection there are eight verses. The 
text has but six, which are taken from " Hymns Ancient and Modern." 
These six correspond with those in the Roman Missal. It is somewhat 
altered from the original translation, which began "Glory and laud and 
honour;" the change in this line by the compilers of A. and M., was 
acknowledged by Neale to be an improvement. The original of the only 
other verse altered in the text is the following, from "Hymnal Noted." 

Verse 5, "Thou wast hastening to Thy Passion 

When they raised their hymns of praise ; 
Thou art reigning in Thy glory 
When our melody we raise." 

The hymn is said to have been written by S. Theodulph while impris- 
oned by the Emperor Louis I.; and that being sung by its author at the 
prison window while the Emperor was passing in the procession on Palm 
Sunday, it gained for him his liberty. 

Theodulph is said to have been born in Italy. He was Abbot in a 
Benedictine monastery at Florence, but on the invitation of Charlemagne 
removed to France, where he died Bishop of Orleans, in the year 821. 
Theodulph's hymns were thought the best of the age in which he lived. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Irish ; Sarum ; A. and M.; People's ; 
Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



73. "Ride on ! ride on in majesty /" 

Henry Hart Milman (1827); appearing in "Hymns adapted to the 
weekly Church Service of the Year" published by the widow of Bishop 
Heber in 1827. The following are original readings of lines altered in 
the text: — 

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Verse I, line 3, "Thine humble beast pursues his road" 

Verse 2, line 4, " O'er capiived death and conquered sin." 

Verse 3, line 2, " The winged squadrons of the sky." 

Verse 4, line 2, " Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh." 

Dean Milman was the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman, physician 
to George III., and was born in London, in 1791. He was educated at 
Greenwich, Eton, and Brasensse College, Oxford ; was ordained in 1817, 
and appointed Vicar of S. Mary's, Reading, where he continued till 1835. 
He was B. A. 1813; M. A. 1816 ; D. D. 1849. From 1821 to 1831, he 
was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. From 1835 to 1849, he was Rector of 
S. Margaret's, Westminster, and became Dean of S. Paul's in 1849. In 
this position he continued till his death, in 1868. He published many 
prose works, some of great value. His poetical publications were also 
numerous. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; 
Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Chope; Morrell and 
How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



74. " Glory be to Jesus." 

( Viva, viva, Jesu.) 

An Italian hymn of the 17th or 18th century. The original is from 
" Aspiraziani Divote" in " Raccolta di Orazioni e Pie Opere Colle Indul- 
gence" This translation, by Edward Caswall (1858), is in nine four-line 
verses. Three of these are omitted in the text. A few lines are also 
altered. Their originals are as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 3, "Which from endless torment 
" 4, Doth the world redeem." 

Verse 3, line 3, "Hell with terror trembles, 
" 4, Heaven is filled with joy" 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum; A. and M.; People's; Chope; Hym- 
nal Noted ; Hymnary. 



75. "Now, my soul, thy voice upraising." 
(Prome vocem, mens, canoram.) 

Santolius Maglorianus (ab. 1650), in Paris Breviary. This translation, 
founded on Chandler's (1837), is by Henry Williams Baker (1861); in 
"Hymns Ancient and Modern!' The text is unaltered. 



Annotations. ^ 

Santolius Maglorianus, or Claude de Santeul, was the elder brother of 
Santolius Victorinus, and was born at Paris, in 1628. He was a secular 
Ecclesiastic at the College of S. Magloire, and was distinguished for his 
knowledge of church history. Some of the most beautiful hymns in the 
"Parts Breviary" are by him. He died in 1684. 

Henry W. Baker was born in London, in 1821. His father, Sir Henry 
Loraine Baker, was a Vice-Admiral in the navy. His son, the subject of 
this sketch, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gradu- 
ated B. A, in 1844, and M. A. in 1847. He was ordained Deacon in 
1844, and Priest in 1846, and was appointed Vicar of Monkland, Here- 
fordshire, in 185 1. He is the author of two or three devotional books, 
but the work which has given him the widest reputation is "Hymns An- 
cient and Modern" (1861), "Appendix" (1868), of which he is the principal 
compiler. Of this work, it is said, nearly five million copies have been 
sold. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; A. and M.; People's ; Hymnal Noted ; 
Hymnary. 

76. "Hail, Thou once despised Jesus!' 

John Bakewell (1760). "It was first published in 'Madan's Collection] 
in 1760; it was inserted, with alterations, in l Toplady" s Collection] in 
1776. In Toplady's edition a stanza has been added, borrowed, with 
slight variations, from Hymn No. 97 of James Allen." (Rogers' "Lyra 
Britannica") But Palmer {"Book of Praise") says, "The text of this 
hymn is given from ' Toplady's Collection] published in 1776, the original 
having been given to Toplady by the author, Mr. Bakewell, himself. It 
had been previously published, in a shorter and altered form, by Martin 
Madan, in 1760." Miller says the alterations were by Toplady " to accom- 
modate the hymn to his own views." The text is that of Palmer, unal- 
tered ; but the last verse of the original is omitted, as in most collections. 

John Bakewell was born in 1721, at Brailsford, Derbyshire. He began 
to preach in 1744. Afterwards removing to London, he became acquainted 
with the Wesleys, Toplady, Madan and others. In 1749, ne was appointed 
a local preacher by the Wesleys. Subsequently he was master of the 
Greenwich Royal Park Academy. In his advanced years he retired to 
Lewisham, where he died in 18 19. His tombstone bears the record that 
" he adorned the doctrine of God our Saviour eighty years, and preached 
his glorious gospel about seventy years." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry; Mercer; Irish; Sarum; Peo- 
ple's; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Meth;; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



77. " Who is this that comes from Edom" 

Thomas Kelly (1809); from the 3d edition of his "Hymns." The 
original has five verses, of which the fourth is here omitted. The follow- 
ing are the original readings of lines altered in the text : — 



(j 2 Annotations* 

Verse I, line 3, " To the slave proclaiming freedom." 

' Verse 2, line 5, " Jesus now is strong to save, 
" 6, Mighty to redeem the slaved 

Thomas Kelly was born at Dublin, in 1769. His father was the Right 
Hon. Chief Baron Kelly. He studied at Dublin University, taking some 
honours. He was designed for the law ; but in the course of his legal 
studies, his views changed, and he took Orders in 1792. Somewhat later 
he became dissatisfied with his connection with the Established Church, 
and left it and founded a sect which bore his name. He was a man of 
large and varied learning, and possessing wealth, was able to work inde- 
pendently. He published some prose works, but he is chiefly known for 
his hymns. The seventh edition (1853) of his "Hymns" contains no less 
than 767 of his compositions. Of course, in so large a number, there are 
many degrees of excellence. Kelly died in Dublin, May 14, 1855. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer. 



78. " We sing the praise of Him Who died" 

Thomas Kelly (1815); from a "Supplement" to his 4th edition. Sir 
Roundell Palmer says of this hymn : " It is distinguished by a calm, 
subdued power, rising gradually from a rather low, to a very high key ; I 
doubt whether Montgomery ever wrote anything quite equal to this." The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Singleton ; A. 
and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Islington; Marylebone; Chope; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Cong. 



79. ' ' The Royal Banners forward go." 
(Vexilla Regis prodeunt.) 

Venantius Fortunatus (ab. 575) ; translated by John Mason Neale (185 1), 
and rewritten by the compilers of "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (1861). 
It " was written for the occasion of the reception of a portion of the Holy 
Cross sent to S. Radegund, at Poictiers." {"Hymns Ancient and Modern, 
Annotated" p. 103.) The text omits one of the verses of the translation; 
otherwise it is unaltered. It is the best known of our ancient hymns for 
Good Friday ; Neale calls it " one of the grandest in the treasury of the 
Latin Church." The occasion of its composition makes it "strictly and 
primarily a processional hymn, though, very naturally, afterwards adapted 
to Passiontide." 

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was born in Venetia about 
the year 530. He studied at Ravenna, and trained himself to oratory and 
poetry. About the year 565, he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the 
holy Martin at Tours, and in France made the acquaintance of the pious 



Annotations* 53 

and talented Queen Rhadegunda. He was influenced by her to remain 
in that country and enter the priesthood. In the year 599, he became 
Bishop of Poictiers, and died A. D. 609. His sacred hymns, which are 
mainly the preservers of his name, occupy but a small space in his eleven 
books of verse. 

This hymn is adopted, with considerable variation in translation, by 
S. P. C. K. ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. andM.; People's; Church; Morrell 
and How ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



80. " Behold the Lamb of God ! " 

Matthew Bridges (1848), in " Hymns of the Heart? The text, which 
is from '■'•Hymns Ancient and Modern" is considerably altered from the 
author's version. The original consists of seven verses, of which the 
third, fourth and sixth are here omitted. The following is the original 
version of the portions retained in the text : — 

Behold the Lamb ! # Behold the Lamb ! 

O Thou for sinners slain, All hail, Eternal "Word, 

Let it not be in vain Thou everlasting Lord, 

That Thou hast died : Purge out our leaven; 

Thee for my Saviour let me take, Clothe us with godliness and good, 

Thee, Thee alone my refuge make, Feed us with Thy celestial food, 

Thy pierced side. Manna from Heaven. 

Behold the Lamb ! Behold the Lamb ! 

Into the sacred flood Worthy is He alone 

Of Thy most precious blood To sit upon the throne 

My soul I cast : Of God above ; 

Wash me and make me Sure and clean, One with the Ancient of all days, 

Uphold me through life s changeful scene, One with the Paraclete in praise, 

Till all be past. All Light, all Love. 

Accessible information concerning the author of this hymn, Matthew 
Bridges, is very meagre. The sketch of him and his writings, by the Rev. F. 
M. Bird, in the "Protestant Churchman" (Dec. 12, 1867,) gives no data of 
his life, except that in 1852 he "lived at Chester Hill House, Woodches- 
ter." Mr. Bridges is a Roman Catholic. In the Preface to "Hymns of 
the Heart, for the use of Catholics" he expresses regret for ever having 
used his feeble pen against that Holy Apostolic Church, which by Divine 
grace he has latterly been able to join, after eight years spent in investi- 
gating her claims. He has written quite a number of books. Some of 
his hymns are very beautiful. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Hymnary. 



81. " See the destined day arise :" 

Richard Mant (1837). It seems to be an imitation of an ancient hymn, 
either by S. Ambrose or Venantius Fortunatus. The Rev. F. M. Bird 
calls it the second best of the author's translations, though " it is less 



54 Bnixotutions* 

a translation than an original, based upon the ' Pange lingua Gloriosi," 
and another Latin hymn." ^Protestant Churchman" Oct. 3, 1867.) The 
text is unaltered. 

Richard Mant was born at Southampton, in 1776. He studied at Win- 
chester School, and Trinity College, Oxford. He graduated B. A. in 
1797, and M. A. in 1801. He received the Chancellor's prize for an English 
essay in 1799. I n 1802, he commenced his ministerial work as Curate in 
Southampton. During the few succeeding years, he made several changes, 
and in 1810, was appointed Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex. In 18 11, he 
preached the Bampton Lectures. He was appointed domestic chaplain 
to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1813, and in 1816, was made Rector 
of S. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. He was made Bishop of Killaloe 
in 1820; in 1823, he was translated to the See of Down and Connor, and 
in 1842, to the See of Dromore. He died November 2, 1848. He was a 
voluminous writer. Some of his prose works are of considerable value. 
He also wrote numerous poems and hymns. " Of his volume of ' Ancient 
Hymns, 1 1837, despite the title, nearly one-half consists of ' Original 
Hymns;' in interest and importance they are far above his translations. 
His learning, devoutness, and scrupulous accuracy of mind, leave nothing 
to be desired in his hymns but lyrical fire ; and the few in which this is 
found in sufficient degree are of great value." (F. M. Bird, " Songs of the 
Spirit" 1871.) 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; A. and M.; Alford ; Church ; 
Chope ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



82. "Pound upon the accursed tree? 

Henry Hart Milman (1827); in "Heber's Collection" 

The following are original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 2, line 5, "Py earth, that trembles at the doom, 

" 6, Py yonder saints who burst their tomb, 
" 7, Py Eden promised, ere He died." 

Verse 3, line 4, " The ghost given up in agony" 
" 6, "In the chamber of the dead." 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C.K.; Elliott; Bickersteth 
Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Ref. Ch. 



83. " When I survey the wondrous cross" 

Isaac Watts (1709) : Hymn 7 of his Third Book. " One of the noblest 
hymns in the English or any other language, and truly classical in its 
expression." (Schaff's " Christ in Song," 1870.) One verse, the fourth in 
the original, is omitted in this as in most collections. The text is unal- 
tered except that in the second line of the last verse, the word " tribute " 
is substituted for "present." 



^ttttotattons* cjq 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell 
and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary ; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



84. " Sweet the moments, rich in blessing" 

Walter Shirley (1760), from a hymn of James Allen (1757). Allen's 
hymn begins " While my Jesus I'm possessing," and is in the coarsest 
vein throughout. It may be found in Rogers' "Lyra Britannica," p. 664. 
Shirley's hymn consists of three eight-line verses ; this collection has three 
four-line verses from Shirley, and a fourth verse which first appeared in 
"Hymns Ancient and Modern" in 1861. The text of Shirley's verses is 
altered only in verse 3, line 1, where "the" is substituted for "Thy" and 
in line 4, "beaming" is substituted for "floating." 

James Allen was born at Yorkshire, in 1734. In 1751, he entered S. 
John's College, Cambridge, but the next year joined the followers of 
Benjamin Ingham, and became an itinerant preacher. He subsequently 
joined the Sandemanians, a Scottish sect. He published a small volume 
of his hymns, called "Christian Songs," and was the editor and principal 
contributor to what is called " The Kendal Hymn Book'' He died in 1804. 

Walter Shirley was born in 1725. He was the friend of Whitefield and 
Wesley. After preaching with great success in England, he received the 
living of Loughrea, Ireland, where he continued to exercise his ministry 
for many years. His last sickness was of a lingering character, and it is 
related of him that when no longer able to leave his house he used to 
preach, seated in his chair in his drawing room, to many who gladly 
assembled to hear. He died in 1786. He published one volume of 
sermons and two poems. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; 
Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Church; Islington; Windle; Chope; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; 
Cong. ; Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 



85. " ' Tis finished ; so the Saviour cried" 

Samuel Stennett (1787) ; in " Rippon's Selection'' The text is unaltered 
except in two lines, of which the following are the original readings : — 

Verse I, line 3, " ' Tis finished ; yes, the race is run." 
Verse 2, line 3, " Is now fulfill'd, as was designed." 

Samuel Stennett was born at Exeter, in 1727. His father was pastor 
of a Baptist congregation in that city ; afterwards of the Baptist Chapel, 
Little Wild Street, London. In this latter pastorate the son succeeded 



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Annotations* 



the father in 1758. He died in 1795. Dr. Stennett was the author of 
several doctrinal works, and a few hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 

86. "Go to dark Gethsemane." 

James Montgomery (1822) ; in the "Leeds Selection." The last verse of 
the original (commemorating the Resurrection) is here omitted, as inmost 
collections. The text from "Additional Hymns" is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. ; Barry ; 
Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Elliott ; Alford ; Windle ; Canter- 
bury; Chope; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; Hymnary. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Bapt. 

87. " sacred head ! now wounded!' 
(O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.) 

By Paul Gerhardt (1656), on the basis of S. Bernard's "Salve, Caput 
Cruentatum" (1153). This translation is by James W. Alexander (1849), 
for Schaff's " KirchenfreundT The original (Latin), containing five 
verses of ten lines each, addressed "ad facie?n Christi in cruce pendentis" 
is the best of Bernard's seven passion-hymns. " This classical hymn has 
shown an imperishable vitality," says Schaff (" Christ in Song" -p. 178), "in 
passing from the Latin to the German, and from the German into the 
English, and proclaiming in three tongues, and in the name of three con- 
fessions, with equal effect, the dying love of our Saviour, and our boundless 
indebtedness to him." Alexander's translation consists of ten eight-line 
verses, of which the second, third, fifth, sixth and ninth are here omitted. 
The text is unaltered, except that line 5 of verse 3 reads " Lord of my 
life," instead of " My Lord of life" as in the original. 

S. Bernard — the " best and greatest man of his age " — who is distin- 
guished as S. Bernard of Clairvaux, was born in Fontaine, Burgundy, in 
1091. His father was a nobleman. He was educated at the University 
of Paris, and entered, at the age of 22, the Cistercian monastery of Citeaux, 
in Burgundy. By means of the remarkable influence over others, which 
afterwards so distinguished him, he induced his five brothers and several 
companions to enter the monastic life. At the age of 25, he was appointed 
Abbot of a new monastery at Clairvaux, in Champagne. This position 
he continued to hold though high preferment was repeatedly offered him. 
Kings and Popes not seldom made him a court of appeal, and yielded to 
his decisions. Six councils of the church are attributed to him. It was 
through his persuasion that the King of France undertook the crusade of 
the year 1146. ■ Luther calls him "the best monk that ever lived." He 
was a great theologian, following Augustine in his doctrines. His works 
are numerous and varied in character. He died in 1153. 

Paul Gerhardt was born in Saxony, in 1606. Studying during the time 
of the Thirty Years' War, he did not enter upon his ministry till war was 



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at an end. His first pastorate was at Mittenwolde, whither he went in 
165 1. In 1657, he removed to S. Nicholas' Church, Berlin. There he 
became known as a hymn-writer, and published his first collection in 
1666. As a preacher and pastor he was held in high honour. In 1666, he 
was deposed from his spiritual office because of his unyielding adherence to 
Lutheran doctrine. He also suffered severely from domestic bereavement. 
In 1668, he became Archdeacon in Lubben, Saxony, where he remained till 
his death in 1676. He left 123 hymns. In German sacred poetiy of the 
older school, Gerhardt ranks next to Luther. Schaff terms him "the 
prince of German hymnists." His hymns, which are the expression of a 
simple but sublime faith in God, combine simplicity with depth and force. 
" His portrait, in the church of Lubben, bears the inscription, ' Theologus 
in cribro Satanae versatus ;' i.e., 'A divine sifted in Satan's sieve.' " 

James Waddell Alexander was born in Louisa County, Virginia, in 
1804. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1820; was 
appointed tutor in the same in 1824; pastor in Charlotte Co., Va., 1825 ; 
pastor in Trenton, N. J., 1828; editor of " The Presbyterian" in 1830; 
Professor of Rhetoric in the College of New Jersey in 1833 ; pastor in 
New York in 1844; Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1849 '» pastor in New York in 1851. He died in 
1859. His published works are numerous and popular. 

This hymn, in its various translations, is adopted by Mercer ; Sarum ; 
Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Canterbury; Chope ; Bickersteth. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



88. " Hark ! the voice of love and mercy :" 

Written (probably) by Jonathan Evans (1787); in " Rippon's Selection" 
and entitled " Finished Redemption!' 

Concerning the authorship of this hymn, see Rogers' "Lyra Britan- 
nica" p. 677. Rogers gives five verses as the original ; of these, the 
fourth is here omitted. Of lines altered in the text, the following are the 
original : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " Do these charming words afford." 

Verse 4, line 2, " Join to sing the pleasing theme." 

" 4, " jfoin to praise Immanuefs JVame." 

Jonathan Evans was born at Coventry, in 1749. He was, in early life, 
employed in a ribbon manufactory, and was very irreligious. In 1778, he 
was converted, and joined the Congregationalists. For some time he 
preached the Gospel in the opportunities his secular employment afforded. 
In 1784, he purchased a building at Foleshill, and there began his stated 
ministry. He died in 1809. He was the author of several hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble ; Mercer; Barry; Sarum; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Islington ; Windle ; Bickersteth ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



58 Annotations* 



89. " come and mourn with me awhile." 

Frederick William Faber (1849) ; from his " Jesus and Mary " consisting 
of twelve verses, of which eight are here omitted. In the verses retained 
there are some alterations. Thus, in the last line of each of the first three 
verses, the original has " Jestis, our Love" instead of " Jesus, our Lord" 
as in the text. Other lines altered are as follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line 2, " See, Mary calls us to her side ; 

" 3, O come and let us mourn with her" 

Verse 4, line 3, "A broken heart love's cradle is ; 
•" 4, Jesus our Love, is crucified." 

Frederick William Faber was born in 1815 ; graduated B. A. at 
Oxford, in 1836 ; was a college Tutor and Fellow for some years. In 
1843, he entered upon the living of Elton, Huntingdonshire. In 1846, he 
became a Roman Catholic ; in 1849, he established the Brotherhood of the 
London " Oratorians," or "Priests of the Congregation of S. Philip Neri." 
This Oratory removed in 1854 to Brompton, where Faber died in 1863. 
He was one of the most eminent hymn-writers of this century. His 
hymns are full of beauty and fervent devotion. They seem to have been 
written in the spirit of what he says in his preface to a complete edition ; 
*. e., " It is an immense mercy of God to allow any one to do the least 
thing which brings souls nearer to Him." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum ; A. and M.; People's; 
Chope ; Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



90. " Resting from His work to-day? 

Thomas Whytehead (1842), and rewritten in " Hymns Ancient and 
Modern" (1861). The original, which is more of a poem than a hymn, 
consists of seven verses. It may be found in the Preface to Biggs' 
'■'■Annotated Edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern" (1867). The 
present version may almost be said to be a new hymn. The text, from 
A. and M., is unaltered. 

Thomas Whytehead was born at Thormanby, York, in 1815. He 
studied at Beverly Grammar School, and S. John's College, Cambridge ; 
graduated B. A. in 1837, and M. A. in 1840. He received various honours 
at the University, among them the Chancellor's medal for English verse. 
In 1839, he was appointed Curate of Freshwater, Isle of Wight. In 1841, 
he was appointed chaplain to the Bishop of New Zealand, but died the 
next year after reaching Sidney. One of his last works was to translate 
Bishop Ken's " Evening Hymn " into Maori. The few works which he 
published give a favorable impression of the piety and learning of their 
author. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Chope. Also 
by Ref. Ch. 



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91. "Pain and toil are over now." 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, wife of the Bishop of Derry. From her 
" Verses for Holy Seasons" (i8q.o). The original has six six-line verses. 
The hymn in the text has three four-line verses. The following are the 
original readings of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " Bring the Roman's dreaded seal, 
" 4, Bring the stanchest sentinel." 

Verse 3, " Yea with morning's purple ray, 

Baffled warriors in your sight 
Shall the stone be roll'd away, 
And bright angels robed in white." 

Cecil Frances Alexander is the daughter of Major Humphreys, of Stra- 
bane, Ireland. In 1850, she was married to the Rev. William Alexander, 
an author in prose and poetry, and now Bishop of Derry. Mrs. Alexan- 
der has published several books, of which "Hymns for Little Children" 
has probably had the largest sale. They are a most successful and beau- 
tiful exposition of the doctrines of the Church Catechism. (Vide 
" Monthly Packet" vol. v., p. 20.) 

The Editor does not find this hymn in any of the collections examined. 



92. "All is o'er, the 'pain, the sorrow." 

John Moultrie (1858). The original has twenty verses. (Vide Mrs. C. 
F. Alexander's " Sunday Book of Poetry" 1864.) The verses of the text 
are the first, second, third and twentieth of the original. The lines altered 
have the following original readings : — 

Verse I, line 2, " Human taunts and fiendish spite." 
" 5, " Yet once more, to seal his doom, 
" 6, Christ must sleep within the tomb." 

Verse 2, line 2, " Which on yonder cross He bore." 

Verse 3, line 1, "Close and still the cell that holds Him." 

Verse 4, line 1, " All night long, with plaintive voicing, 
" 2, Chant His requiem soft and low ; 
" 3, Loftier strains of loud rejoicing?' 

Mr. Moultrie has published quite a number of poems and hymns, which 
have received warm commendation in England. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry ; Singleton ; Church ; Chope ; Morrell 
and How. Also by Ref. Ch. 



6o Annotations. 



93. "I would not live alway ; I ask not to stay" 

William Augustus Muhlenberg (1824) ; in Prayer Book Collection (1826). 
The whole poem is given in " I would not live alway, and Other Pieces, 
by the same author" (i860). The text is from the Prayer Book Collection, 
unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 

94. " God of my life, Lord most high." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxxxviii. The text has been revised in 
recent times. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 

95. " My grateful soul shall bless the Lord." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xvi. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 

96. " This life's a dream, an empty show" 

Isaac Watts (1719) ; a part of his metrical version of the 17th Psalm. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Elliott ; Alford ; 
Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

97. " Lt is not death to die" 

George W. Bethune. From his "Lays of Love and Faith" (1847). 
Based on the French of Dr. Caesar Malan, pastor of an Independent 
Reformed Church at Geneva. This hymn was sung, by his own direction, 
at Bethune's funeral. The text is unaltered. 

George W. Bethune was born at New York, in 1805. He was at 
different times pastor of congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church, in 
Rhinebeck, Utica, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, and was of great promi- 
nence in that Communion. He was the author and editor of numerous 
publications. He died in Florence, Italy, in 1862. 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



98. "Christ the Lord is risen to-day? 

Charles Wesley (1739). The original has eleven verses. The first, 
second, third and fifth, form the present hymn. The following are the 
original readings of lines altered in the text :— . 



&nnotutions. 6 X 

Verse 2, line 2, " Fought the fight, the battle won ; 
" 3, Lo ! our Sun's eclipse is o'er, 
" 4, Lo ! He sets in blood no more." 

Verse 3, line 3, " Death in vain forbids His rise." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C.K. ; 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. ; Cong. ; Meth. ; 
Bapt. ; Ref. Ch. 

99. " Jesus Christ is risen to-day" 

Anonymous (ab. 1750). "It has been traced by Sedgwick to a school- 
book of sacred history, printed at Northampton about the middle of the 
1 8th century, written by one C. B., probably a friend or pupil of Dr. 
Doddridge." ^Monthly Packet" vol. iv., p. 318.) Schaff says it is 
"reproduced from a Latin hymn of the 15th century, which exists in 
different forms. (" Christ in Song" p. 253.) 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Alford ; Church ; Islington ; Mary- 
lebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; 
Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



100. "At the Lamb's high feast we sing." 

(Ad Regias Agni dapes) 

From the Roman Breviary, recast from a hymn of S. Ambrose. Trans- 
lated by Robert Campbell (1850), in his " Hymns and Anthe?ns." Largely 
altered in "Hymns Ancient and Modern" from which the text is taken. 
The following are Campbell's translations of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse I, line 3, " Washed otir garments in the tide." 

" 6, " Gives the guests His blood for wine." 
" 8, " Love the Victim, Love the Priest." 

Verse 2, line 5, " Christ the Lamb, Whose blood was shed." 

Verse 3, line 2, "Powers of hell beneath Thee lie ; 
" 3, Death is conquered in the fight." 

(The last four lines of verse third are new.) 

Verse 4, "Paschal triumph, Paschal joy, 

Only sin can this destroy ; 
From the death of sin set free, 
Souls reborn, dear Lord, in Thee. 
Hymns of glory, songs of praise, 
Father, tmto Thee we raise ; 
Risen Lord, all praise to Thee, 
Ever with the Spirit be." 



6 2 &nnotutit)U8. 

S. Ambrose was born in Gaul about the year 340. He studied for the 
bar, in Milan, obtaining distinction ; and was appointed Consular Prefect 
of the province in which Milan was situated. In the year 374, the people 
of Milan chose him for their Bishop by popular acclamation. He shrank 
from the high responsibility of ecclesiastical office, and even fled the city 
to avoid it. But at last he accepted it to conciliate opposing parties, and 
thenceforth gave himself unreservedly to the work. In the great Arian 
controversy of that day he took strong ground against the heretics, declin- 
ing to yield to imperial demand, and when sentenced to banishment for 
his contumacy, refusing to go. He also disciplined the Emperor Theo- 
dosius for permitting the massacre of the Thessalonians. Ambrose died 
at Milan, in 397, and the great church where he is buried is called Basilica 
Ambrosiana. ■ 

To Ambrose is attributed the introduction of the singing of psalms in 
the Western Church, and also the practice of antiphonal or responsive 
singing. In reply to some who charged him with leading away the people 
by the singing of hymns, Ambrose said, "A grand thing is that singing, 
and nothing can stand before it. For what can be more telling than that 
confession of the Trinity which a whole population utters, day by day ? 
For all are eager to proclaim their faith, and in measured strains have 
learned to confess Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." The Benedictine 
authors attribute only twelve hymns to Ambrose ; other hymns are called 
Ambrosian because they are evidently of his school. S. Augustine, in his 
"Confessions," testifies to the effect of the hymns and music introduced 
into the Church of Milan by Ambrose, his spiritual father. " How did I 
weep, O Lord ! through Thy hymns and canticles, touched to the quick by 
the voices of Thy sweet attuned church ! The voices sank into mine ears, 
and the truths distilled into my heart, whence the affections of my devo- 
tions overflowed ; tears ran down, and I rejoiced in them." 

Robert Campbell was an advocate residing in Edinburgh. He is not 
much known as an author, but some of his hymns have been adopted in 
several hymnals. He was a Roman Catholic. His death occurred in 1868. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum ; Singleton; A. 
and M. ; Elliott ; Church ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; 
Hymnary. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



101. "Angels, roll the rock away / " 

This hymn "is based," says Dr. Schaff, "upon an older and longer 
hymn of Thomas Scott (who published 104 ' Lyric Poems and Hymns' 
till), commencing ' Trembling earth gave awful signs' It was trans- 
ferred to the ' Warrington Collection? in seven verses, with a ' Hallelujah ' 
after each verse. It was altered by Thomas Gibbons (a Congregational 
minister in England, 1 720-1 78 5), and passed through various transforma- 
tions." The present version reads almost like another hymn. The text 
is from Singleton, unaltered. In some of the Hymnals adopting it, the 
earlier version is followed. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Singleton ; Windle. Also by Presb.; 
Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



uuotattous. 



102. " Come see the place where Jesus lay." 



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Thomas Kelly (1804). Rewritten in "Hymns Ancient and Modern" 
(1861). The following is the original version as given by Kemble : — 

" He's gone ! see where His body lay, [Why should His people now be sad ? 

A prisoner till th' appointed day, None have such reason to be glad, 

Released from prison then. As reconcil'd to God. 

Why seek the living with the dead ? Jesus, the mighty Saviour lives ; 

Remember what the Saviour said, To them eternal life He gives, 

That He should rise again." The purchase of His blood. 

O joyful sound ! O glorious hour ! Why should His people fear the grave ? 

When Jesus, by almighty power, Since Jesus will their spirits save, 

Reviv'd, and left the grave. And raise their bodies too. [fail ? 

In all His works behold Him great ! What though this earthly house shall 

Before, almighty to create ! Almighty power will yet prevail, 

Almighty now to save ! And build it up anew.] 

" The first begotten from the dead," Ye ransom'd, let your praise resound, 

Behold Him risen, His people's Head, And in your Master's work abound, 

To make their life secure. [breath, With strong and patient faith ! 

They too, like Him, shall yield their Be sure your labour's not in vain ; 

Like Him, shall burst the bands of death : Your bodies shall be rais'd again, 

Their resurrection sure. No more to suffer death. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; A. 
and M. 

103. " The strife is o'er, the battle done/" 
{Finita jam sunt prcelia /) 

A hymn of the 12th century ; translated by Francis Pott (i860). The 
text is unaltered. 

Francis Pott studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated 
B. A. in 1854, and M. A. in 1857. He was ordained Deacon in 1856, and 
Priest in 1857. He was Curate of Bishopsworth, Bristol, 1856 ; of Ard- 
ingley, Sussex, 1858 ; was appointed to Ticehurst in 1861 ; and is now 
incumbent of Northill, Bedfordshire. Mr. Pott has made many accepta- 
ble translations, and has edited "Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common 
Prayer, etc.;" a compilation of real merit. 

This hymn is adooted by Singleton; A. and M.; Hymnary. Also by 
Ref. Ch. 



104. " Jestis lives ! ?to longer now." 

(Jesus lebt ! mit Ihm auch ich.) 

Christian Fiirchtegott Gellert (1757); translated by Miss Frances Eliza 
beth Cox (1841) in " Sacred Hymns from the Germany The original 
German, and also Miss Cox's translation, each contains six lines in every 
verse. Miss Cox rewrote her translation in 1864. The abridged version 



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of the text is of uncertain origin, but has been in popular use for some 
time. The differences between the text and Miss Cox's two translations 
are not given. (Vide Bird's "Notes on Hymnody" in "Protestant Church- 
man," Oct. 24, 1867.) 

Gellert was born in 171 5, in Saxony, where his father was minister for 
fifty years. His father was a poet, and young Gellert early developed 
poetical tastes. His advantages for study, were, on account of his father's 
narrow means, somewhat limited. But, with a desire for usefulness, he 
made the most of his opportunities, and taking a degree in the Faculty of 
Belles Lettres, he acquired the right of giving public lessons in the year 
1745-46. His lectures on poetry and eloquence were very popular. He 
also published some works of varied character. He died, greatly beloved, 
in 1769. Says his biographer, " Perhaps no grave has ever been watered 
with so many and such sincere tears." Kiibler, in his " Historical Notes 
to the Lyra Germanica " (1865), says that Gellert " may be called the head 
of a new school of German hymn-writers, during the middle and latter 
half of the last century, in whose hymns the didactic element prevails, 
since they mostly enforce lessons of Christian duty, and inculcate religious 
doctrines." 

Frances Elizabeth Cox shares with Catherine Winkworth the honours 
of being most successful in the translation of German hymns. Her " Sa- 
cred Hymns from the German" (Pickering, 1841) contains forty-nine 
hymns, original and translation standing opposite each other ; and eleven 
pages at the end devoted to brief accounts of the authors. In 1863, she 
published an enlarged edition. The main difference between her transla- 
tions and Miss Winkworth's, is, that she always retains the original metre. 
For an interesting article on Miss Cox's translations, the reader is referred 
to Bird's "Notes on Hymnody" in the "Protestant Churchman" Oct. 24, 
1867. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Sarum; A. 
and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford ; Church; Chope; Hymnal Noted; 
Bickersteth; Hymnary. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



105. " The day of resurrection^ 
(' Ayaardaeog fj/uspa.) 

S. John Damascene (ab. 760) ; translated by John Mason Neale (1862) 
in "Hymns of the Eastern Church" "The original is the hymn of 
victory sung at the first hour of Easter morning, when, amid general 
exultation, the people were shouting, 'Christ is risen!' Its intrinsic 
excellence is only equalled by its appropriateness to the soul stirring 
occasion. The Abbe Migne has given the original in his ' Cursus Patro- 
logiaey' it consists of twenty-seven verses, and is entitled 'Etc rrjv 
KvpiaK^v rov ILagx a -' " The text is like the translation, except in two 
lines, of which the following are the original : — 

Verse I, line I, " ' Tis the day of resurrection." 
" 6, " From earth unto the sky." 



gLtinotxtion*. 65 

S. John Damascene is called by Gibbon "the last of the Greek 
Fathers," though others make John Mauropus (1060) the last. Few par- 
ticulars of his life can be discovered. Neale places his death about 780. 
He had versatile talents ; was a learned and eloquent preacher, a pro- 
found student, a great poet. For a time he was a Priest of the Church 
of Jerusalem, but afterwards retired to the monastery of S. Sabas, between 
Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, where he died between 754 and 787. 

This hymn is adopted by Irish ; Sarum ; A. and M.; People's ; Hymnal 
Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



106. " Christ the Lord is risen again /" 

(Christus ist erstanden.) 

An Easter hymn of the Bohemian Brethren in the 15th century, trans- 
lated into German by Michael Weiss (1531) and, after him, into English 
by Miss C. Winkworth (1858) in "Lyra Germanica," Second Series, 1862. 
One verse is omitted. The following are the originals of the few lines 
altered in the text : — 

Verse 1, line 3, " Hark, the angels shout for joy." 
Verse 6, line 2, "Christ, to-day Thy people feed." 
" 4, " That we all may sing for aye." 

The Bohemian Brethren were the remains of an ancient Slavonic 
Christianity which owed its origin to the teaching of two Greek monks in 
the 9th century, and was in existence before the papal authority and 
Roman liturgy found their way to Bohemia. Throughout the Middle Ages 
a tacit struggle existed between the two elements. When the Reformation 
began, the Bohemian Brethren were among the first to hail it. As early 
as 1522 they sent messengers to Luther offering their co-operation. This 
Luther declined; but later, after some conferences and explanations, he 
consented to receive them as co-labourers. They afterward generally joined 
the Zwinglians, in which body they finally disappear from the page of 
history, although the modern society of United Brethren, or Moravians, 
may be regarded as an offshoot from this body. 

Michael Weiss was born at Neisse, in Silesia. He was a pastor among 
the Bohemian Brethren, and a contemporary with Luther. His hymns 
have received commendation. He died in 1540. 

Catherine Winkworth is " the most gifted translator of any foreign 
sacred lyrics into our tongue, after Dr. Neale and John Wesley ; and in 
practical services rendered, taking quality with quantity, the first of those 
who have laboured upon German hymns. Our knowledge of them is due 
to her more largely than to any or all other translators ; and by her two 
series of Lyra Germanica, her Chorale Book, and her Christian Singers of 
Germany, she has laid all English-speaking Christians under lasting 
obligation." (Bird's " Songs of the Spirit," p. 235.) 

This hymn is adopted by S. P.C. K.; Barry; A. and M.; Elliott; 
Hymnary. 

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66 Annotations* 



107. "He is risen! He is risen!" 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander (1846); in "Verses for Holy Seasons" 
The original has five verses, of which two are here omitted. The few 
lines altered in the text, are, in the original, as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 5, "Blood can wash all sins away." 

Verse 3, line 3, "We axe free from sin's dark prison." 
" 5, "And a brighter Easter beam 
" 6, On our longing eyes shall stream." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum ; Singleton; 
People's ; Canterbury ; Church ; Morrell and How ; Hymnary. 



108. "Lift your glad voices in triumph on high" 

Henry Ware (1820); appeared first in the" ''Christian Disciple" The 
text is unaltered. 

Henry Ware was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1793. His father 
was a Unitarian minister; afterwards a Professor in Harvard College. 
Young Ware graduated at Harvard, studied theology, and became minister 
of the Second Unitarian Society, in Boston, in 1817. After a ministry of 
twelve years, he made a foreign tour, and on his return was elected 
"Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Theology" in 
Harvard College. In. this position he obtained eminence. He died in 
September, 1843. His collected works in four volumes, were edited after 
his death, by the Rev. Chandler Robbins. 

This hymn is adopted by People's. Also by Meth.; Bapt. 



109. " To Him Who for our sins was slain" 

Arthur Tozer Russell (1851); from his "Psalms and Hymns" The 
only lines altered are in the last verse ; the third line of which, in the 
original has "ye" instead of "we," and the fifth line, "and" instead of the 
last " our." 

Arthur Tozer Russell was born at Northampton, March 20, 1806. He 
entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1824, took the Hulsean Prize in 
1825, and was afterwards elected to a scholarship. He was ordained 
Deacon in 1829, Priest in 1830, and the same year was appointed Vicar 
of Caxton. In 1852, he was preferred to the vicarage of Whaddon. In 
1863, he removed to S. Thomas', Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, and in 
1867, to Holy Trinity, Wellington, Salop. He is the editor and author of 
numerous publications, among them several volumes of hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Palmer. 



Annotations* 67 



110. "Thus God declares His sovereign will" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm ii. The text was subsequently altered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



111. " Once the angel started back" 

(Ad Regias Agni dopes.) 

John Williams (1845); from his "Ancient Hymns of Holy Church" 
The original has eight verses, of which five are here omitted. The lines 
altered in the text are in the original as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " Dimly shadow'd in time pasty 
Verse 3, line I, " Thou Victim come from heaven." 

John Williams was born at Deerfield, Mass., in 1817 ; graduated at 
Trinity College, Hartford, in 1835 ; was ordained Deacon, 1838 ; Priest, 
1841 ; Rector of S. George's, Schenectady, N. Y., 1842 ; President of 
Trinity College, 1848-1853 ; Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, 1851, and 
sole Bishop, by the death of Bishop Brownell, in 1865. He has edited a 
number of works of value. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 

112. " Joy fills the dwelling of the just" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxviii. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. 

113. " Thou art gone up on high." 

Mrs. Emma Toke (1851); in "Psalms and Hymns!' The text is un- 
altered. 

Mrs. Toke is the wife of the Rev. Nicholas Toke, Rector of Goding- 
ton, Ashford, Kent. The present hymn (with others) was written at the 
request of a friend, and was sent anonymously to the committee of the 
S. P. C. K., when they were arranging their Hymn Book. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; 
A. and M.; Elliott; Windle; Canterbury; Morrell and How; Bicker- 
steth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by Presb. 



114. "Hail the day that sees Him rise" 

Charles Wesley (1739) ; from his "Hymns and Sacred Poems? " The 
most popular of our English Ascension Hymns." (Biggs.) The original 
has ten verses, of which the third, seventh, ninth and tenth are here 



68 ^tfttotattoits* 

omitted. But two lines are altered in the text : these are as follows in the 
original : — 

Verse 2, line I, " There the pompous triumph waits." 

Verse 6, line I, " Grant, though parted from our sight." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Sarum ; 
Singleton; A. andM.; People's; Elliott; Church; Islington; Marylebone; 
Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; Bick- 
ersteth ; Hymnary; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

115. "Look, ye saints; the sight is glorious?. 

Thomas Kelly (1809). The text does not vary from the original except 
in verse 2, line 3, where " on" is substituted for "in." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Windle ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 

116. " Crown Him with many crowns." 

Matthew Bridges (1848); in "The Passion of Jesus." This hymn is 
entitled " The Song of the Seraphs." One verse, the fifth in the original, is 
here omitted. The following are the original of lines altered in the text : — 

Verse 2, line 6, "As of that Rose the stem." 

Verse 3, line 3, "Rich wounds, yet visible above." 

Verse 4, line 4, "Absorbed in prayer and praise." 

Verse 5, line 7, " Thy praise shall never, never fail." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; A. and M.; People's; 
Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



117. " Our Lord is risen from the dead." 

Charles Wesley (1741) ; in John and Charles Wesley's " Collection of 
Psalms and Hymns." The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; Sarum; Single- 
ton; Elliott; Islington; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

118. "The atoning work is done." 

Thomas Kelly (1806) ; The only alterations in the text are in verse 1, 
line 6, where " He " is substituted for "And" and in verse 2, line 5, where 
" withstands" is substituted for "objects." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Sarum ; Islington ; Canterbury ; 
Rogers. Also by Cong. 



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119. "The rising God forsakes the tomb." 

Isaac Watts (1706) ; afterwards rewritten by John Wesley. The first 
verse of Watts' original begins as follows : — 

" He dies, the Heavenly Lover dies." 

As improved by Wesley it begins thus : — 

" He dies, the Friend of sinners dies." 

The first three verses of the original are here omitted. The altered 
lines of the verses retained, are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " And led the monster death in chains." 

Verse 3, line 3, " Then ask the monster whereas his sting, 

" 4, And where's thy victory, boasting grave ? " 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Windle; Islington. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



120. " O all ye people, clap your hands" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xlvii. Subsequently altered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. 



121. "Lift up your heads, eternal gates," 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxiv. Subsequently altered. 
This is adopted by Pr.Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Win- 
dle ; Chope ; Morrell and How. Also by Cong. 



122. " The servants of Jehovah's will" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxviii. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. 

123. "Behold the glories of the Lamb." 

Isaac Watts (1709) ; from his " Hymns T This is said to have been his 
first hymn composed for use in public worship. The original has eight 
verses, of which the third, fourth and fifth are here omitted. There are 
no alterations in the text except that in verse 1, line 2, "amid" is substi- 
tuted for " amidst." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Sarum; Chope; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



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Annotations. 



124. " Stand up, my soul, shake off thy fears* 



Isaac Watts (1709); from his "Hymns" The third and fourth verses 
of the original are here omitted. The only lines altered in the text are 
the following, which in the original read thus : — 

Verse 1, line 4, " Where thy great Captain Saviour's gone" 
Verse 2, line 3, " Thy Jesus nail'd them to the cross." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



125. " He's come, let every knee be bent" 

Anonymous. " From a very curious * Specimen ' of ten hymns, with 
music, appended to> a sermon by Arthur Bedford, ' The Excellency of 
Divine Music] 1733. This is probably older, but I have not traced it 
further back. Six verses of it, altered, are in John Arnold's ' Compleat 
Psalmodist,' third edition, 1753 ; and four (w. I, 4, 5 and 6) in the Amer- 
ican Prayer Book Collection." (Bird's "Songs of the Spirit," p. 319; 
which may be consulted for a complete version of the hymn.) The follow- 
ing is the original of the verses adopted in the text : — 

He's come, let every knee be bent, Hail, blessed Spirit ! not a soul 

All hearts new joys resume ; But doth Thy goodness feel ; 

Let nations sing with one consent, Thou dost our darling sins control, 

The Comforter is come. And fix our wavering zeal. 

What greater gift, what greater love, Thou to the conscience dost convey 
Can God on man bestow ? The checks that all must know ; 

' Tis half the angels' heaven above, Thy motions first do show the way ; 
And all our heaven below. Then give us strength to go. 



This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



126. " Spirit of the living God." 

James Montgomery (1825); from his "Christian Psalmist!' The 
original has six verses, of which the fourth and sixth are here omitted. 
The only alteration in the text is in the last line of the fourth verse, where 
"people" is substituted for "kindred." ^ 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.;* 
Barry ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* 



127. " Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come. 



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One of the translations of the "Veni Creator j" probably by Nahum 
Tate, being from the "Supplement" (1703) to his "New Version" of the 
Psalms. The original, as given by Bird in " Songs of the Spirit" p. 174, 
consists of four eight-line verses. The text, which is unaltered (except in 
verse 1, line 2, "these" is substituted for "the" and in line 4, "be" is 
substituted for " is "), comprises the first two verses of the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K.; Irish. Also by Presb. 

From Bird's "Songs of the Spirit" some notes are gathered concerning 
this famous hymn, the " Veni Creator Spiritus." Its authorship is un- 
certain. Daniel ascribes it to Charlemagne (d. 814). The first distinct 
mention of it is in the " Historia Delationis S. Marculfi" A. D. 898. The 
Bollandists in the "Acta Sanctorum" in the life of Notker, ascribe it to 
Charlemagne. Daniel says that the action of the Synod, assembled by 
his authority at Aquisgranum, in 809, on the doctrine proposed by him 
concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, 
moved him to the preparation of this hymn, and that it was probably 
written by him. 

Others have supposed that it was written for Charlemagne by Alcuin. 
Trench says it "is certainly older." 

Mone affirms that it could not have been written by Charlemagne, who 
was not sufficiently master of the Latin language to write it. The accen- 
tuation in the fifth verse betrays an acquaintance with the Greek, of which 
Charlemagne was ignorant. He ascribes it to Gregory the Great, to the 
style of whose hymns it has much resemblance. 

Wackernagel agrees with Mone in ascribing it to Gregory the Great. 

The sixth verse " Da gaudiorum pramia" is generally conceded to be a 
later insertion. 

The hymn at once took high rank among the Spirit Hymns. It was 
appointed to be used, says Daniel, at the creation of a Pope, the election 
of a Bishop, the coronation of Kings, the celebration of a Synod, the 
elevation and translation of Saints, etc. In the Breviary it is appointed 
for the Vespers of Pentecost, and at Terce, in commemoration of the 
descent of the Spirit upon the Apostles at that hour. It was among the 
earliest of the translations at the Reformation in the German and Anglican 
Churches, and appointed for use both in the Ordination service, and on 
other important occasions. 

Bird, in the " Songs of the Spirit" gives nine translations of the Veni 
Creator. 

The following is the original of the hymn : — 

Veni Creator Spiritus, Qui Paraclitus diceris, 

Mentes tuorum visita, Altissimi donum Dei, 

Imple superna gratis Fons vivus, ignis, caritas, 

Quae tu creasti pectora. Et spiritalis unctio. 



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Tu septiformis munere, Da gaudiorum prsemia, 

Dextrae Dei tu digitus, Da gratiarum numera, 

Tu rite promissum Patris, Dissolve litis vincula, 

Sermone ditans guttura. Adstringe pacis fcedera. 

Accende lumen sensibus, Per te sciamus da Patrem, 

Infunde amorem cordibus, Noscamus atque Filium 

Infirma nostri corporis, Te utriusque Spiritum 

Virtute firmans perpeti. Credamus omni tempore. 

Hostem repellas longius, Sit laus Patri cum filio, 

Pacemque dones protinus, Sancto simul Paraclito, 

Ductore sic te praevio, Nobisque mittat Filius 

Vitemus omne noxium. Charisma Sancti Spiritfls. 

Other translations of the Veni Creator are to be found in Hymns 129 

and 137, of this collection. 



128. " Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove." 

Isaac Watts (1707). The original has five verses, of which the fourth 
is here omitted. The altered lines of the text are, in the original, as 
follows : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " Fond of these trifling toys : 

Verse 3, line I, "In vain we tune our for?nal songs." 
" 3, Our souls can neither fly nor go y 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canter- 
bury; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



129. " Creator, Spirit, by Whose aid." 

John Dryden; "it is believed," says Miller, "late in life, when he had 
become a Romanist." " This volume probably contains nothing grander 
than Dryden's paraphrase of Veni Creator? (" Songs of the Spirit," p. 164.) 
The original has thirty-nine lines, not divided into verses. In this collec- 
tion fifteen lines are omitted. The text is without alteration. 

John Dryden was born at Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, August 9, 
1631. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Trinity College, 
Cambridge, where he graduated M. A. in 1657. His after life was that of 
a poet and man of letters, and under a variety of external circumstances. 
He was very ready to adapt himself to the many political changes of 
his day. He died May 1, 1700, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. 
Without dispute he may be called one of the greatest of British poets. 
His published works are very numerous. Sir Walter Scott edited them in 
eighteen octavo volumes. • 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum ; Singleton ; People's ; Alford ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; 
Windle,; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



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ISO. "Lord God, the Holy Ghost: 



73 



James Montgomery (1819) ; from " CotterilVs Psalms and Hymns? It 
was slightly revised by the author in 1825. The text is without alter- 
ations. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; Canterbury ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



131. " Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove." 

Simon Browne (1720) ; from his "Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three 
Books, designed as a Supplement to Dr. Watts? It is headed " The Soul 
Giving itself up to the Conduct and Influence of the Holy Spirit? The 
original has seven verses. The version in this collection has numerous 
alterations, and the last two verses seem to be made up of transposed por- 
tions of the third, fourth and fifth verses of the original. The following 
original of the first five verses is from the " Songs of the Spirit-." 

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, Lead me to God, my final Rest, 

My sinful maladies remove ; In His enjoyment to be blest. 

Be Thou my Light, be Thou my Guide ; 

O'er every thought and step preside. Lead me to Christ, the living Way, 

Nor let me from His pastures stray ; 
The light of Truth to me display, Lead me to Heaven, the seat of bliss, 

That I may know and choose my way ; Where pleasure in perfection is. 
Plant holy fear within my heart, 
That / from God may ne'er depart. Lead me to holiness, the road 

That / must take, to dwell with God ; 
Conduct me safe, conduct me") Lead to Thy Word, that rules'] 

From every sin and hurtful f 0mitted - And^suf ^directions how t of 0mitted - 
snare ; J live. J 

Simon Browne was born at Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, about 1680. 
He began to preach as an " Independent " before he was twenty years of 
age, and was soon after settled at Portsmouth. In 1716, he became pastor 
in London. In 1723, he met with some misfortunes, which preyed upon 
his mind, and produced that singular case of monomania, recorded in the 
text-books of Mental Philosophy ; he thought that God had " annihilated 
in him the thinking substance, and utterly divested him of consciousness." 
" Notwithstanding," says Toplady, " instead of having no soul, he wrote, 
reasoned, and prayed as if he had two." He died in 1732. His publica- 
tions number twenty-three, of which some are still in repute. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; A. and M.; Islington; Marylebone; Win die ; Canterbury; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



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132. " Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed" 

Harriet Auber (1829) ; from her " Spirit of the Psalms." The original 
has seven verses, the third of which is omitted in this collection. The 
seventh stanza in this version is added. The only line altered in the text 
is the fourth in verse six, which in the original reads " And worthier Thee" 

Harriet Auber was born in 1773. Her life, spent mostly at Broxbourne 
and Hoddesdon, Herts, was a quiet and secluded one. She wrote a great 
deal of poetry, a large portion of which has never been published. Her 
only published work is that referred to. She died in 1862. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Sarum; 
Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Marylebone; Chope; Bickersteth; Hym- 
nary. Also by Presb. ; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



133. " Spirit of mercy, truth, and love" 

Anonymous (1775); from the " Foundling Hospital Collection." Alford 
in his "Year of Praise" attributes this hymn to R.W.Kyle; but Biggs 
^Monthly Packet" Oct., 1867) says it is much older. The lines altered 
in the text are in the original (see " Songs of the Spirit" p. 402) as 
follows : — 

Verse I, line 2, " Shed Thy blest influence from above." 

Verse 2, line 2, " Be God's eternal praises sung ; 

" 3, Through all the listening earth be taught 
" 4, The acts our great Redeemer wrought." 

Verse 3, line 2, " Over Thy favoured Church preside ; 

" 3, Still may mankind Thy blessings prove." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; A. andM.; Elliott; Alford; Marylebone; Windle; Chope; 
Morrell and How; Bickersteth. Also by Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



134. " The Spirit in our hearts'* 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826) ; in the Prayer Book Collection. The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; People's ; Alford ; Bickersteth. Also 
by Presb.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



135. " Come, Holy Spirit, come." 

Joseph Hart (1759); from his "Hymns Composed on Various Subjects" 
The original has nine verses, of which the second, fifth, seventh and eighth 
are here omitted. Lines altered in the text, are as follows in the orig- 
inal : — 



^notations* 75 

Verse I, line 3, " Dispel the darkness from our minds, 
" 4, And open all our eyes." 

Verse 2, line 3, " And kindle in our breasts the flames" 

Verse 3, line 4, " 2"^ .remtf Z#w of God" 

Verse 4, line 3, " To pour fresh life on every part." 

Joseph Hart was born in London, in 1712. He received a good edu- 
cation, and afterwards for a time devoted himself to teaching. But he 
became unsettled in his religious views, dissipated, as he calls himself, " an 
audacious apostate." Subsequently, thoroughly changed in his character, 
he became a hymn-writer and preacher, and was settled over the " Jewin 
Street Independent Chapel." He died in 1768. Belcher, in his "Histor- 
ical Sketches of Hymns" quotes from Dr. Johnson the following curious 
passage : " I went to church ; and seeing a poor girl at the Sacrament in 
a bed gown, I gave her privately half-a-crown, though I saw Hart's hymns 
in her hand." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P..C. K.; Barry; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Alford ; Islington ; Windle ; Bickersteth ; Palmer ; 
Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



136. " When God of old came down from heaven" 

John Keble (1827); from the "Christian Year." The original has 
eleven verses, of which the second, fifth, sixth, eighth and tenth are here 
omitted. The text is unaltered. 

John Keble was born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, April 25, 1792. His 
father was Rector of the neighbouring parish of Coin S. Aldwyn. The 
young poet was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he 
graduated B. A. in 1810, and M. A. in 1813. He received a fellowship at 
Oriel College; was appointed public Examiner, 1814-16, and in 1821-23 \ 
and in 1831, was appointed Professor of Poetry. In 1825, he became 
Curate of Hursley, near Winchester, but soon after, on account of sick- 
ness in his father's family, he returned to Fairport, where he resided till 
1835. He then became Vicar of Hursley, retaining that living until his 
death, March 29, 1866. To the re-erection and adornment of the church 
at Hursley, he devoted his property, and the profits of his most popular 
works, the " Christian Year" and " Lyra Innocentium" His published 
works are very numerous. His " Christian Year" has had most remark- 
able sale, more than one hundred editions having been published in 
England. It may be safely said that no person in the present century has 
exercised a wider or better religious influence than John Keble. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; 
People's; Elliott; Chope; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by 
Presb.; Bapt. 



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137. " Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire?' 

Veni Creator. Translated by John Cosin (d. 1672). The text is 
unaltered except in the last line before the Gloria, where "unending" is 
substituted for "endless." The following note is from Bird's "Songs of 
the Spirit" p. 171. "Cosin was a native of Norwich, and scholar of 
Caius College, Cambridge ; Prebend of Durham, 1624 ; Rector of Brans- 
peth, 1626 ; in 1660, Dean and then Bishop of Durham. His ' Collection 
of Private Devotions for the Hours of Prayer,' much offended the 
Puritans, who styled it ' a book of Cozening Devotions.' This work con- 
tains ten short hymns (three of them from the Latin), which are supposed 
to be his. This one is found with ' Prayers for the Third Hour? At 
the revision of the Book of Common Prayer and Offices, in 1662, it was 
put into the Ordinal, whence it has come into nearly universal use." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; 
Church ; Islington ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by Ref. Ch. 



138. " Holy, holy, holy ! Lord God A Imighty / " 

Reginald Heber (1827). The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; 
Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Ref. Ch. 

139. " O holy, holy, holy Lord." 

James Wallis Eastburn (d. 18 19). " An American poet, a native of New 
York, he is best known as a colleague of Robert C. Sands in the compo- 
sition of " Yamoyden, a Tale of the Wars of King Philip" published in 
New York in 1820. Some interesting particulars concerning Mr. Eastburn 
will be found in Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of America" nth ed., 
1852, p. 213, article, Robert C. Sands." (Alliborne's Dictionary of Authors.) 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Bapt. 



140. "Holy, holy, holy Lord." 

Christopher Wordsworth (1862); from the "Holy Year." The original 
has eight verses, of which the second, sixth and seventh are here omitted. 
Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 4, "And when Thy behests are done." 

Verse 5, line 3, " Godhead One, and persons Three, 
" 4, Join we with the heavenly host." 



Annotations* 77 

Christopher Wordsworth — nephew of the great lake-poet, William 
Wordsworth — was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at 
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A., with high honours, 
in 1830; M. A. in 1833; D. D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his 
College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received 
Priest's Orders in 1835 ; head master of Harrow School in 1836 ; Canon 
of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 
1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of 
Westminster, in 1865 ; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are nu- 
merous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. 
His "Holy Year ; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays and other occasions 
throughout the Year" was published in 1865, and contains 127 hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Morrell and How. Also by Ref. Ch. 



141. "The God of Abraham praised 

Thomas Olivers (1772). According to Rogers, this hymn in the original 
consists of twelve verses, divided into three equal Parts. The verses of 
the text are the first, second and fourth, of Part L; the third, of Part II.; 
and the second and fourth, of Part III. The text differs from the corre- 
sponding verses of the original only in verse 4, line 6, where "he" is sub- 
stituted for " still" 

This hymn was originally published with sixty-nine Scriptural refer- 
ences, " adapted to a celebrated air, sung by Priest Signor Leoni, at the 
Jews' Synagogue, London." Montgomery's opinion of the hymn was 
that "there is not in our language a lyric of more majestic style, 
more elevated thought, or more glorious imagery. Its structure, indeed, 
is unattractive, but like a stately pile of architecture, severe and simple in 
design, it strikes less in the first view than after deliberate examination, 
when its proportions become more graceful, its dimensions expand, and 
the mind grows greater by contemplating it." 

Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His 
youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was 
led to a change of life. He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, 
and followed his trade in several places. In 1753, John Wesley engaged 
him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties 
of an itinerant ministry. During the latter portion of his life he was 
dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference. He 
died in 1799. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Irish; Elliott; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Cong.; Meth.; 
Ref. Ch. 



142. " Father of heaven, Whose love profound." 

John Cooper (18 12). " This is the first hymn in ' CotterilVs Selection of 
Psalms and Hymns, 1 of which several editions were published between 
1810 and 1819, and of which there is a further account under Thomas 



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Cotterill. The name J. Cooper has been given to this hymn in MS. in 
some of the copies, but it is not known on what authority." (Miller's 
" Singers and Songs of the Church" p. 446.) The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Isling- 
ton ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 



143. " We give immortal praise? 

Isaac Watts (1709). The original has in verse I, line I, "/" instead of 
" we," and in line 3, " my" instead of " our." The text, with these excep- 
tions, is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Single- 
ton ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Bickersteth. Also 
by Presb.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



144. "Holy, holy, holy Lord." 

James Montgomery (1836). The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Alford; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong. 



145. "Holy Father, great Creator." 

In " Hymns for Church and Home" (1859). This hymn is ascribed to 
Bishop Griswold. Its date and text are uncertain. 

Alexander Viets Griswold was born in 1767 ; was Rector of various 
parishes ; Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, and Bishop of Massachusetts. 
He died, 1843. He published a few works. 

This hymn is adopted by Singleton. 



146. " Thou, Whose almighty Word? 

John Marriott (1813). The text varies slightly from the original as 
given by Rogers, who says it is from a MS. supplied by the author's son. 
The altered lines read in the original as follows : — 

Verse 3, line 4, " Move o'er the waters' face." 

Verse 4, line I, "Blessed and holy 

" 2, And glorious Trinity." 

John Marriott was a son of the Rev. R. Marriott, D. D., and was born 
in 1780. He studied at Rugby, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he 
took honours at the examination in 1802. He was ordained in 1803, and 



Annotations* 70 

after holding various curacies was appointed Rector of Church Lawford, 
Warwickshire. He died in 1825. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemhle ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish ; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Islington; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; 
Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



147. " Welcome, sweet day of testy 

Isaac Watts (1709). The lines altered in the text are as follows in the 
original : — 

Verse 3, line I, " One day amidst the place 

" 2, Where my dear God hath been." 

Verse 4, line 3, "And sit and sing herself away 
" 4, To everlasting bliss." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Singleton; Elliott ; Isling- 
ton ; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



148. "Awake, ye saints, awake" 

Miss Elizabeth Scott (ab. 1769). It first appeared in "DobelVs Selec- 
tion" (1806), but was altered by T. Cotterill, in his "Selection" (1810). 
Verses one and two are by Cotterill ; verses three and four are by Miss 
Scott, except the last two lines of verse four, which are by Cotterill. The 
lines altered in the text have their original as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 5, " Come, bless the day that God hath blest." 

Verse 3, line 3, " While earth, in humbler strains." 

" 5, " Worthy art Thou Who once wast slain." 

Verse 4, line I, " Gird on, great God, Thy sword." 
" 4, " Maintain the glorious war." 

Of Miss Elizabeth Scott but little is known. In the " Christian Maga- 
zine" December, 1763, there is given her dedication to her father, the 
Rev. Mr. Scott, of Norwich, of her MS. poems. Probably she was a 
sister of Thomas Scott, of whom we have given a sketch. Caleb Evans 
gave twenty-one of Miss Scott's hymns in his "Collection" (1769), and 
John Dobell gave fourteen others in his " Selection" (1806). 

Thomas Cotterill was born in 1779 ; studied at S. John's College, Cam- 
bridge, graduating M. A.; ordained in 1806, and entered upon parochial 
work at Tutbury ; afterwards removed to Lane End, where he remained 
for nine years among the Potteries; in 18 17, became perpetual Curate of 
S. Paul's, Sheffield. He died in 1823. He was the author of several 



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books ; among them, "A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and 
Private Use, adapted to the Services of the Church of England" In the 
preparation of this collection (the 8th ed., 1819), he had the assistance of 
Montgomery, who in this work did what he condemned in others, viz.: 
altering and remodeling other authors' hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Elliott ; Islington. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth. 



149. " Blest day of God ! most calm, most bright!* 

John Mason (1683). The original has thirteen verses, of which eight 
are here omitted. The lines altered in the text are the following : — 

Verse I, line 4, "A day of mirth and praise." 

Verse 2, " My Saviour's face did make thee shine, 

His rising did thee raise, 
This made thee heavenly and divine 
Beyond the common days." 

Verse 3, line 1, " The first-fruits do a blessing prove." 
" 3, "And they that do a Sabbath love." 

Verse 4, " This day must I for God appear; 

For, Lord, the day is Thine ; 
let me spend it in Thy fear, 
Then shall the day be Thine." 

John Mason studied at Clare Hall, Cambridge. Taking Orders, he 
became Curate at Isham, Northamptonshire. After an intermediate pre- 
ferment, he was, in 1674, promoted to the Rectory of Water-Stratford, 
Buckinghamshire. In 1683, he published "Songs of Praise" which has 
passed through many editions. He died in 1694. 

This hymn is adopted by Singleton ; Elliott ; Marylebone ; Windle ; 
Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



150. " Sweet is the work, my God, my King." 

Isaac Watts (1719). The fourth and sixth verses of the original are 
here omitted. The only alterations in the text are in the last two lines of 
verse 3, where "His" is substituted for "Thy," and in line 1 of verse 4, 
which in the original reads "But I shall share a glorious part." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Bicker- 
steth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* 



151. " Great God, this sacred day of Thine" 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The original has four verses, of which the 
third is here omitted. The lines altered in the text are as follows in the 
original : — 

Verse 1, line 3, "May we employ in work divine 

" 4, These solemn, these devoted hours." 

Verse 2, "Hence, ye vain cares and trifles, fly; 

Where God resides appear no more; 
Omniscient God, Thy piercing eye 

Can every secret thought explore ; 
Oh, may Thy grace our hearts rejiiie, 
And fix our thoughts on things divine." 

The last line of the first and third verses has, in the original, " which " 
instead of "what." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr, Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Marylebone. Also 
by Presb.; Meth. 



152. "In loud exalted strains! 

Benjamin Francis (1774) ; sung at the opening of the Chapel at Horsley, 
• Gloucestershire, September 18, 1774; in "Rippon's Selection" (1787). 
Some verses of the original are here omitted. The following is the 
original version, as given by Bird, of the verses retained : — 



In sweet exalted strains, 
The King of Glory praise ; 

O'er heaven and earth He reigns, 
Through everlasting days ; 

Fair Salem, still His chosen rest, 

Is with His srnile and presence blest. 

Then King of Glory, come ; 

And with Thy favour crown 
This temple as Thy dome, 

This people as Thy own ; 
Beneath this roof O deign to show 
How God can dwell with men below. 



Here may Thine ears attend 

Our supplicating cries ; 
A nd grateful praise ascend, 

All fragrant to the skies ; 
Here may Thy word melodious sound 
A nd spread celestial joys around. 

Here may th' attentive throng 

Imbibe Thy truth and love ; 
And converts join the song 

Of seraphim above : 
Till all who humbly seek Thy face \ N 
Rejoice in Thy abounding grace. ) ew 



Benjamin Francis was born in Wales, in 1734. He was educated at 
Bristol College, and afterwards became a Baptist preacher, exercising his 
ministry in England, though at first quite ignorant of the English tongue. 
He was very popular as a preacher. He died in 1799. He was the 
author of several works, of no great value. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



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153. "Another six days' work is done." 

Joseph Stennett (d. 1713). The author was a Baptist preacher in Lon- 
don, from 1690, till his death in 1713. 

The following are the original verses corresponding with those retained 
in the text : — 

Another six days' work is .done, This heavenly calm within the breast ! 

Another Sabbath is begun ; Is the dear pledge of glorious rest, 

Return, my soul, unto thy rest, Which for the Church of God remains, — 

Revere the day thy God hath blest. The end of cares, the end of pains. 

O that our thoughts and words may rise In holy duties, thus the day 
As incense to propitious skies ! In holy pleasures melts away : 

And fetch from heaven that sweet repose, How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend, 
Which none but he that-feels it knows. In hope of one that ne'er shall end ! 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; Marylebone; Windle 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



154. "Lord! in the morning Thou shall hear." 

Isaac Watts (1719). The text is without alteration. 
This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Elliott; Islington ; Windle. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



155. "As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs :" 

Robert Lowth (d. 1787); Psalm xlii. Of this metrical version, three 
verses are here retained. Lines altered in the text are as follows in the 
original : — ■ 

Verse 1, line 4, "So thirsts to reach Thy sacred resting-place." 

Verse 2, line 1, " Yet Thy soft mercies, ever in my sight." 

" 4, " To Thee P 11 fondly tune the grateful lay." 

Verse 3, line 3, "In His bright fane thy thanks shall yet be paid ; 
" 4, Unquestion'd be His pity and His love." 

Robert Lowth was born in 17 10, in Winchester. He was educated at 
Winchester School, and at New College, Oxford ; Professor of Poetry in 
the University of Oxford in 1741 ; Prebend of Durham, 1755 ; Bishop of 
S. Davids', 1766; translated to Oxford the same year, and to London, 
1777; declined the Archbishopric of Canterbury, 1783. He died in 1787. 
His publications were numerous and important. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



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156. "Again the Lord of life and lights 

Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1773).. The original has eleven verses, of 
which the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and eighth are retained in this 
collection, though their order is somewhat changed. The lines altered in 
the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " The heathen world in gloom." 

Verse 3, line 2, " To bind His soul in death." 
" 4, " With His expiring breath." 

Verse 4, line 3, " While broke beneath His powerful cross." 

Verse 6, line I, " Ten thousand differing lips shall join." 

Anna Letitia Barbauld was born at Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire, 
June 20, 1743. Her father, the Rev. John Aikin, was a dissenting 
minister. She wrote verses at an early age. In 1773, she published a 
volume of miscellaneous poems, of which four editions were rapidly sold. 
In 1774, she married the Rev. Rochemont Barbauld, with whom she 
opened a school for boys, at Palsgrave, Suffolk. Her leisure hours were 
devoted to composition. At the time of his death, in 1803, Mr. Barbauld 
was minister at Newington Green. Mrs. Barbauld continued to reside in 
that neighbourhood till her death in 1825. Her collected works were 
edited, after her death, by Miss Lucy Aikin (1825). 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Singleton; Marylebone; 
Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



157. " Lord of 'the worlds above." . 

Isaac Watts (1719). .Three verses of the original are here omitted. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Sarum ; 
Singleton ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; 
Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



158. " My opening eyes with rapture see" 

Sedgwick ascribes this hymn to J. Hutton. " I cannot trace the hymn. 
There was a James Hutton in 1742, and a John Hutton in 1754." {Bird) 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt. 



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1 59. " This is the day of light." 

John Ellerton (1868) ; in the " Appendix to Hy?7ins Ancient and Modern' 
The text is without alteration. 



This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



160. " day of rest and gladness :" 

Christopher Wordsworth (1862); in the "Holy Year." The fourth 
verse of the original is here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and 
M.; People's; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



161. " Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone." 

Isaac Watts (1709). This is a medley from hymns 15 and 16 of Book 
II. The following is the original of the corresponding lines in the text : — 

Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone ; When I can say my God is mine. 
Let my religious hours alone : When I can feel Thy glories shine, 

Fain would my eyes my Saviour see, I tread the world beneath my feet, 

I wait a visit, Lord, from Thee. And all that earth calls good or great. 

My heart grows warm with holy fire, Send comforts down from Thy right hand, 

And kindles with a pure desire. While we pass thro 1 this barren land ; 

Come, my dear Jesus, from above, And in Thy temple let us see 

A nd feed my soul with heavenly love. A glimpse of love, a glimpse of Thee. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

162. "Let me with light and truth be bless 'd." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xliii. The text is unaltered. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Church. 



163. " To Thy temple I repair ." 

James Montgomery (1812); in " Collyer's Collection" The last half of 
verse one, the whole of verse two, and the last half of verse three of the 
original, are here omitted. The text of the verses retained is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; 
Singleton; Alford; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* 85 

164. " Now may He Who from the dead." 

John Newton (1779). The text is without alteration. 
This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Irish; Marylebone; Palmer. Also 
by Presb., Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



165. "Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing" 

Walter Shirley (1774); in Harris' "Collection of Hymns for Public 
Worship." The third verse of the original is here omitted. The only 
lines altered in the text have their original as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 5, "Ever faithful 

"6, To the Truth may we be found." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Singleton; Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Can- 
terbury; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

166. "Almighty Father, bless tlie word" 

Anonymous. The Editor has not been able to trace this hymn. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



167. "Dismiss us with Thy blessing, Lord." 

Joseph Hart (1762) ; in the second edition of his "Hymns : Supplement." 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Islington ; Windle. Also by Presb. ; 
Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



168. "May the grace of Christ, our Saviour" 

John Newton (1779). The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Bicker- 
steth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



169. " Saviour, again to Thy dear Name we raise? 

John Ellerton (1 868) ; in the " Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern? 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; Bickersteth; Hym- 
nary. 



86 Gtttttotstions* 



170. " Lord of 'the harvest, hear." 

Charles Wesley (1742); from his third volume of "Hymns and Sacred 
Poems." Two verses of the original are here omitted. The lines altered 
in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " The harvest, truly Lord, is great? 

Verse 3, line I, " Convert and send forth more." 

" 3, " And let them speak Thy word of power, 
" 4, As workers with their God" 

Verse 4, line 3, " Thine universal grace proclaim." 
This hymn is adopted by Mercer. Also by Presb.; Cong. 



171. "Ye servants of the Lord." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 175 1). The last verse of the original is here omit- 
ted. The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sin- 
gleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; Marylebone; 
Windle; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



172. "Lord, in Thy Name Thy servants plead? 

John Keble (1856); written for the "Salisbury Hymn Book." The 
original has five verses, of which the first and fifth are here used. The 
second verse of the text is in the original as follows : — 

" So grant the precious things brought forth 
By sun and moon below, 
That Thee in Thy new heavens and earth, 
We never may forego? 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; 
Chope; Hymnary; Palmer. 



1 73. " Lord spare and save our sinful race. 

The Editor has not been able to trace this hymn. 
It is not adopted in any of the collections examined. 



&nnotatiotiB* 87 



174. " Great is our guilt, our fears are great? 

The Editor has not been able to learn the authorship of this hymn. 
It is not adopted in any of the collections examined. 



• 175. "From all Thy saints in warfare, for all Thy saints at rest." 

Earl Nelson (1867). Of this hymn Miller says : " An appropriate stanza 
is devoted to each of the numerous saints, for whom thanks are given, ex- 
cept that in some of the stanzas two saints are included. The arrange- 
ment of this hymn was suggested by a hymn in the Rev. Dr. J. S. B. 
Monsell's "Hymns of Love and Praise." The noble author, with a view 
to its perfection, accepted hints from several helpers. The object was, at 
the same time, to put the teachings of saints' days on their proper footing, 
and to provide a good hymn on the teaching of the day, the tune of which, 
being always the same, could be easily learnt by school children in agri- 
cultural parishes." 

The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Bickersteth. 



176. "The Son of God goes forth to war" 

Reginald Heber (1827). The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Marylebone; Windle; 
Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by 
Ref. Ch. 



177. " How bright these glorious spirits shine? 

William Cameron (1781); from Watts' 41st hymn, First Book. It is 
given as the 66th of the Scotch Paraphrases. The original is in seven 
four-line verses, the fifth of which is here omitted. The only alteration 
of the text is in line 1 of verse 3, which reads in the original : — 

" The Lamb which dwells amidst the throne." 

William Cameron was born in 1751. He studied at Marischal College, 
Aberdeen, and in 1785 was ordained minister of Kirknewton, in Mid 
Lothian. He died in 1811. He was the author of several works. 



88 Annotations* 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; Alford; Windle; Bickersteth; Hymnary; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



178. " Lord, the Holy Innocents" 

The authorship of this hymn is unknown to the editor. 
It is not adopted in any of the collections examined. 



179. " Glory to Thee, Lordr 

Mrs. Emma Toke (1853) ; in S. P. C. K. Hymnal. The text is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton; A. 
and M.; Windle; Chope; Morrell and How; Bickersteth. 



180. " Behold a humble train." 

The editor is unacquainted with the origin of this hymn. 
It is not to be found in any of the collections examined. 



181. "Praise we the Lord this day" 

Anonymous (1846). In " Hymns for the Festivals and Saints' Days of 
the Church of England!' The text is from A. and M., but the lines 
altered are in the original as follows : — 

Verse I, line I, "Let us praise God this day." 
" 4, "On holy saints of old." 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; A. and M.; Chope. 



Annotations* 89 



182. "Praise to God Who reigns above" 

Richard M. Benson (1861); written for " Hymns Ancient and Modern? 
from which the text, unaltered, is taken, though the last two verses of 
A. and M. are here omitted. 

The Rev. R. M. Benson is a clergyman of the Church of England, and 
is one of the "Cowley Brothers." He spent some time in 1870-71 in the 
United States, labouring with zeal and success in several dioceses. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



183. " Lo ! what a clotid of witnesses? 

Anonymous (1781). One of the Scotch Paraphrases (No. 59). Re- 
written in the Prayer Book Collection (1826). 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



184. "Not to the terrors of the Lord." 

Isaac Watts (1709). The text is from the Prayer Book Collection, 
slightly altered. The original hymn by Watts has six verses, of which 
the last is here omitted. Lines altered in the text are in the original as 

follows : — 

Verse 4, line 3, "And God, the Judge of all declares 
" 4, Their vilest sins forgiven." 

Verse 5, line 1, " The saints on earth and all the dead." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble; Canterbury. Also by 
Presb.; Bapt. 



185. "How vast must their advantage be. 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxxiii. The text is unaltered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. 



186. "For the Apostles' glorious company." 

William Walsham How (1867) ; from his " Supplement? This and the 
following hymn (187) are parts of one hymn, consisting, in the original, of 
eleven verses. This hymn consists of verses three, four and five. The 
text is unaltered. 

It is adopted, undivided, by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Bickersteth; Rogers. 



go Annotations* 

187. "For all the saints, who from their labours rest." 

William Walsham How (1867). See note on the preceding hymn. In 
the original the latter part of verse 2, line 3, reads "their Light of light." 
So the last word in verses I and 6 is "blest." 



188. " Come let us j out our friends above" 

Charles Wesley (1759); found in an anonymous tract containing forty- 
three hymns, and entitled " Funeral Hymns, London: printed in the year 
1759." The original consists of five eight-line verses, of which the third, 
fourth, and last half of the fifth are here omitted. The lines altered in 
the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line 2, " That have obtain 'd the prize." 

Verse 4, line 3, " Part of His host hath cross'd the flood; 
" 4, And part is crossing now." 

The last verse seems to be a substitute for Wesley's, which is as follows : — 

" O that we now might grasp our Guide ! 
O that the word were given ! 
Come, Lord of hosts, the waves divide, 
And land us all in heaven ! " 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; Alford; 
Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



189. "Hark! the sound of holy voices." 

Christopher Wordsworth (1862). The text is but slightly altered. In 
line 2 of verse 1, "o'er" is substituted for "at." Two lines of verse 2 
are altered, the original reading as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " King, Apostle, Saint, and Martyr, 
" 4, Confessor, Evangelist." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton ; A. and M.; 
People's ; Canterbury ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



190. " Glorious things of thee are spoken" 

John Newton (1779); from the " Olney Collection." The original has 
five eight -line verses, sixteen lines of which are here omitted. The text is 
unaltered. 



^nrtotations. p T 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble; Mercer; S. P.C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; People's; Elliott; Church; Islington; Maryle- 
bone ; Windle ; Chope ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also 
by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



191. " I love Thy Kingdom, Lord" 

Timothy Dwight (1800). The third and fourth verses of the original are 
here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

Timothy Dwight was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1752. 
At the age of thirteen years he entered Yale College, and graduated in 
1769 with distinguished honours. He was tutor in the college for several 
years succeeding his graduation. In 1777, he began to preach as a Con- 
gregationalist ; became an army chaplain; in 1783, was settled as pastor 
in Greenfield, Conn.; became President of Yale College in 1795, retaining 
this position until his death, in 18 17. His publications were very 
numerous. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Alford. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



192. "Triumphant Sionf lift thy head." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 175 1). This hymn is somewhat changed by alter- 
ations, omissions and transposition of the text. The following are origi- 
nal lines of portions altered : — 

Verse 2, line 2, " And let thy various charms be known : 
" 3, The world thy glories shall confess, 
" 4, Deck'd in the robes of righteousness :" 

Verse 4, " God from on high thy groans will hear, 

His hand thy ruins shall repair; 
Nor will her watchful monarch cease 
To guard her in eternal peace." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. Also by Presb.: Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



193. " God's temple crowns the holy mount'' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxxxvii. The text has been somewhat 
changed. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



92 Annotations, 



194. " God is our refuge in distress" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xlvi. The text is without alteration. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Barry; Church; Windle. 



195. "Like Noah's weary dove." 

William Augustus Muhlenberg (1826); in Prayer Book Collection. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Alford. Also by Bapt. 



196. " The Lord, the only God, is great." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xlviii. The text is unaltered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Church. 



197. " One sole baptismal sign" 

George Robinson (1842); in Leifchild's " Original Hymns" (1846). 
The third and fourth verses of the original are here omitted. The only 
alteration of the text is in verse I, line 3, which reads in the original, 

" Zion, one faith is thine." 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



198. " Head of the hosts in glory 1 " 

Matthew Bridges (1848); in "Hymns of the Heart" The verses of 
the original are nine in number, of which verses one, nine, six, seven and 
five, correspond with the verses of the text, in the order mentioned. Lines 
altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 1, line 3, " Thy church on earth below." 

Verse 3, line 3, " In triumph round and round, 

" 4, Wave, wave your banners, wave." 

Verse 4, line 3, " At Jesus' pierced feet." 

" 5, " Stretch forth your suppliant arms." 



Annotations* 93 



Verse 5, line 1, " Holy Apostles ! beaming.' 

" 3, "From diadems of power 
" 4, Call on the awful Name." 

" 7, " In every hour." 

This hymn is adopted by Bapt. 



199. " With joy shall I behold the day." 

James Merrick (1763); from his "Poems? Translated from a spirit- 
ualizing paraphrase in Latin by George Buchanan. The hymn has been 
much abbreviated and altered since it was first written. 

James Merrick was born in 1720; educated at Trinity College, Oxford, 
of which he became Fellow in 1744; took Orders, but was prevented by 
poor health from undertaking parochial duties. He died in 1769. He 
had prominence as a classical scholar, and was author of several publica- 
tions, amongst which was "The Psalms Translated or Paraphrased in 
English verse? 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer. 



200. "Pleasant are Thy courts above? 

Henry Francis Lyte (1834); from his "Spirit of the Psalms? The 
text from Rogers is unaltered. Bird gives the original of line 8, verse 1, 
as follows : — 

"For Thy fulness ; God of grace." 

Henry Francis Lyte was born at Kelso, Ireland, June I, 1793. He 
entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1812, where he graduated with honour. 
He was ordained in 1815, and immediately entered upon a curacy at 
Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion. In 1819, he removed to 
Lymington, Hants. He was subsequently appointed to the perpetual 
curacy of Lower Brixham, Devon. He died at Nice, in 1847, (while on a 
continental journey,) and is buried in the English cemetery there. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; A. and M.; Elliott; 
Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; Morrell and How; Bick- 
ersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. 



201. " Forth from the dark and stormy shy? 

Reginald Heber (1827). The text (from Palmer) is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Mercer; Elliott; Alford; Church; Morrell 
and How; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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202. "The Church's one foundation" 

Samuel John Stone (1866) ; in his "Lyra Fidelium." The text (from A. 
and M.) is unaltered ; but the original has sixteen more lines, and reads in 
line 1 of verse 2, " She is from every nation." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; Hymnary. 



203. "Thou, God, all glory, honour, power." 

Verses one and four are altered from a hymn by John Patrick, D. D. 
(ab. 1691-94), appended to his version of the Psalms. Verses two and 
three are anonymous. 

John Patrick, a brother of Bishop Simon Patrick, was Prebendary of 
Peterborough, 1685; Precentor of Chichester, 1690; and preacher at the 
Charter-House, in the Chapel of which he was buried on his death, in 
1695. His "Psalms of David, in Metre" were much used by Presby- 
terians and Independents until superseded by the compositions of Watts. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C, K.; Irish; Sarum; Alford. 



204. " To Jesus, our exalted Lord." 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The last two verses of the original are here 
omitted. The lines altered in the text are in the original as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 2, "Dear name, by heaven and earth adored." 

Verse 3, line 1, "Yet while around His board we meet, 
" 2, And worship at His glorious feet." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. Also by Presb.; Meth. 



205. "My God, and is Thy table spread." 

Philip Doddridge (^.1751); at least, the first three verses are Dod- 
dridge's ; the last two are either his or based upon his. In verse 1, line 
4, the original has "its" instead of " Thy," and in verse 3, line 4, "sacred" 
instead of "holy." Doddridge's third verse is here omitted. 

" This is inserted as a Communion Hymn in the ' Prayer Book of the 
Church of England' It was introduced by a University printer about 
half a century ago. He was a Dissenter, and filled up the blank leaves 
at the end of the Prayer Book with hymns he thought would be accept- 
able. The authorities did not interfere, and the hymns thus took their 
place." {Miller.) 



Annotations* pe 

Biggs calls this "our most popular and very beautiful" sacramental 
hymn. It is very curious to notice how its assertion of sacramental doc- 
trine has been strong enough to offend some Church of England compil- 
ers. In Hall's Collection, verse two stands thus : — » 

" Hail, sacred feast, which Jesus makes ; 
Memorial of His Flesh and Blood ! 
Blest, who with lively faith partakes 
That sacred cup, that heavenly food." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum ; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Afford; Church; 
Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



206. "And are we now brought near to God?" 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751); that is, the first two verses are his, the last 
two are possibly his. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



207. " Bread of the world, in mercy broken!' 

Reginald Heber (1827). The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Irish ; Elliott ; 
Alford ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Bickersteth. Also by Ref. Ch. 



208. " Come let us join our cheerful songs." 

Isaac Watts (1709). The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; Maryle- 
bone; Windle; Canterbury; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Palmer; 
Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



209. " Bread of heaven, on thee we feed? 

Josiah Conder (1824); from his "Star in the East, etc." The text is 
changed throughout by the substitution of "we" and "our" for "/" and 
"my." The last four lines of verse two are also altered — reading in the 
original as follows :— 

Verse 2, line 3, "'Tis Thy wounds my healing give, 
To Thy cross / look and live ; 
Thou, my life ! let me be 
Rooted, grafted, built on Thee." 



96 Annotations, 

Josiah Conder was born in London, in 1789. He became a publisher, 
and in 1814 became proprietor of "The Eclectic Review." Subsequently 
to 1824, he composed a series of descriptive works, called the " Modern- 
Traveller " which appeared in thirty volumes. He also published several 
volumes of poems and hymns. He was the author of the first " Congre- 
gational Hymn Book" (1836). He died in 1855. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Sarum ; A. and M.; Elliott ; 
Alford; Church; Islington; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Ref. Ch. 



210. " Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless." 

" This is doubtless Charles Wesley's, but I cannot trace it as yet, though 
I have all his works." {Bird.) 

This hymn is not to be found in any of the Hymnals examined. 



211. "According to Thy gracious word" 

James Montgomery (1825); from his " Christian Psalmist." The lines 
altered in the text read in the original as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " Thy testamental cup I take." 
Verse 3, line 1, " Gethsemane can /forget?" 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Single- 
ton ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



212. " The gentle Saviour calls" 

From a hymn by Philip Doddridge (No. 198 in his Collection). The 
text is like that in the Prayer Book Collection, by which alone, of the 
Hymnals examined, this hymn is adopted. 



213. "Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding^ 

William Augustus Muhlenberg (1826) ; in the Prayer Book Collection. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Single- 
ton; People's; Elliott; Church; Windle; Palmer. Also by Presb.; 
Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* 



214. "In token that thou shalt not fear. ,' 



97 



Henry Alford (1832); in his "Psalms and Hymns" (1844). The text 
(from the author's " Year of Praise"} is unaltered. 

Henry Alford was born in London, in 18 10. He studied at Ilmin- 
ster Grammar School, Somerset, and afterwards at Trinity College, 
Cambridge; he graduated B. A. 1832, M. A. 1835, B. D. 1849. In 1834, 
he became Fellow of Trinity College, and from 1835 to 1853, he held 
the living of Wymeswold, Leicestershire. He was Hulsean Lecturer in 
1841-42. From 1853 to 1857, he was minister of Quebec Street Chapel, 
London; in 1857, he became Dean of Canterbury. He died in 1871. 
Dean Alford is favourably known by his poems and hymns, his sermons, 
and especially by his commentary on the Greek Testament. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Mercer; S. P.C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Windle; 
Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 



215. "Dear Saviour, if these lambs should stray" 

Mrs. Ann Beadley Hyde (1824) ; in Nettleton's " Village Hymns." The 
text is unaltered. 



This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



216. " Soldiers of Christ, arise." 

Charles Wesley (1749); in "Hymns and Sacred Poems." This hymn 
forms the first two verses of a poem containing sixteen eight-line verses. 
The only alterations in the text are in the last two lines of the fourth 
verse, which in the original read thus : — 

" Ye may overcome thrd Christ alone, 
And stand entire at last." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; 
Islington; Windle; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; 
Hymnary. Also by Presb. ; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



217. "My God! the covenant of Thy love." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). The second verse of the original is here 
omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Windle. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt. 

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218. "Jesus, and shall it ever be. 



Joseph Grigg (d. 1768). " This was composed when the author was but 
ten years of age. As a marvel of precocious talent it takes its place along 
with Milton's Psalm — ' Let us with a gladsome mind,' written at the age of 
15. Grigg's hymn, in five stanzas, appeared anonymously in the ' Gospel 
Magazine' for April, 1774, headed ' Shame of Jesus Conquered by Love, by 
a Youth of Ten Years* It was sent to the magazine by the Rev. Benjamin 
Francis, who gave the age of the author. He is said also to have given 
the hymn the extended form in which it afterwards appeared." (Miller?) 

The following is the original from Rogers : — 

Jesus ! and shall it ever be ! Yet blush I must, while I adore, 

A mortal man ashamed of Thee ? / bhish to think I yield no more. 

Scorned be the thought by rich and poor; 
O may I scorn it more and more ! Ashamed of Jesus ! of that Friend 

On Whom for heaven my hopes depend ? 
Ashamed of Jesus ! sooner far It must not be ! be this my shame, 

Let evening blush to own a star. That I no more revere His Name. 

Ashamed of Jesus ! just as soon 
Let midnight blush to think of noon. Ashamed of Jesus ! yes, I may, 

When I've no crimes to wash away; 
' Tis evening with my soul till He, No tear to wipe, no joy to crave, 

That Morning Star, bids darkness flee ; No fears to quell, no soul to save. 
He sheds the beams of noon Divine 
O'er all this midnight soul of mine. Till then {nor is the boasting vain), 

Till then, I boast a Saviour slain; 
Ashamed of Jesus ! shall yon field And oh may this my portion be, 

Blush when it thinks who bids it yield? That Saviour not ashamed of me. 

But little is known of Grigg's early life except that it was passed in 
humble circumstances. Dr. Belcher speaks of him as "a labouring 
mechanic." Afterwards he became a Presbyterian minister, and was 
assistant to the Rev. Thomas Bures, from 1743 to 1747, in the Presby- 
terian Chapel, Silver Street, London. During this time he wrote some of 
his hymns. In 1747, Mr. Bures died, and at his death Mr. Grigg retired 
from the pastorate, and removed to St. Albans. He died in 1768. Sedg- 
wick's complete collection of Grigg's poetical productions contains 40 
hymns and 17 "Serious Poems." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; Irish; 
Elliott; Islington; Windle; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



219. " When His salvation bringing T 

Joshua King (1830). Bird says "the chorus is added to the original. 
Otherwise the text is unaltered. 



This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Irish ; People's ; Maryle- 
bone; Bickersteth; Hymnary. 



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220. " Glory to the Father give." 

James Montgomery (1825); from his "Christian Psalmist" The text 
is unaltered except that in line 2 of verse 3, the original reads "Be this 
day a Pentecost." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Barry; People's; Canter- 
bury. Also by Cong. 



221. " How bless 'd are they who always keep." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxix. Somewhat altered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Barry. 



222. " happy is the man who hears." 

Michael Bruce (d. 1767); Scotch Paraphrase, No. 11. The fourth verse 
of the original is here omitted ; and the lines altered in the text are as 
follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 3, "And her rewards more precious are 
" 4, Than all their stores of gold." 

Verse 3, "In her right hand she holds to view 

A length of happy days ; 
Riches, with splendid honours join'd 
Are what her left displays." 

Verse 4, line I, "According as her labours rise." 

The version given by Rogers differs slightly in one or two other lines. 

Michael Bruce, one of the most remarkable of short-lived poets, was 
born at Kinnesswood, Scotland, March 27, 1746. His parents, though 
poor, noticing his literary predilections, determined to educate him ; and 
during four years he studied at the University of Edinburgh. He subse- 
quently entered upon the study of theology, teaching also at the same time 
for means of support. But under his incessant toil his health began to 
decline, and he died July 6, 1767, at the early age of twenty-one. " The 
poetical remains of Bruce have been made the subject of a curious con- 
troversy. At college, he had become the companion of John Logan, 
a person of somewhat kindred genius, and who afterwards becoming min- 
ister of Leith, acquired reputation as a preacher. Subsequently to Bruce's 
death, Logan visited his parents, and offered to publish their son's poems 
for their pecuniary benefit. He was, accordingly, entrusted with the 
whole of the MSS., including an unpublished book of hymns, which the 
parents familiarly termed their son's ' Gospel Sonnets/ Of the latter, sev- 
eral were familiar to the neighbours, who had derived their knowledge of 



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the compositions from the deceased poet himself. After a considerable 
delay, Logan published a small volume entitled ' Poems on several occa- 
sions, by Michael Bruce.' The scantiness of the compositions, and the 
absence of the ' Gospel Sonnets,' disquieted the parents. On a request 
being made to Logan, by the father of the deceased poet, for the MS. 
book of hymns, he stated that it was lost. Logan was afterwards associ- 
ated with other clerical brethren in preparing a collection of Scripture 
paraphrases, for the use of the Scottish Church. He became the most 
conspicuous member of the committee by contributing a number of com- 
positions which were hailed with admiration, and readily adopted by the 
Church. But Michael Bruce's father recognized them as his son's ' Gospel 
Sonnets,' and such, with probably a few verbal alterations, there is strong 
reason for believing, they were." (Rogers.) Bruce's title to all of them 
seems satisfactorily proved, and few can now be found to defend the claims 
of Logan to their authorship. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. Also by Pr. Bk.; Cong. 



223. " What a strange and wondrous story" 

Anonymous. The editor is unable to trace this hymn further than 
" Hymns for Church and Home" (1859). 



It is adopted by Bapt. 



224. "By cool Siloairis shady rill." 

Reginald Heber (18 12). The text is unaltered, except that in line 2 of 
verse 1, the original has "sweet" instead of "fair." 

This hymn is adopted by Singleton; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



225. " Jesu, meek and gentle" 

George Rundle Prynne (1856); appeared in his " Hymnal suited for the 
Services of the Church" (1858). The text (from the Hymnary) is un- 
altered. 

George Rundle Prynne studied at S. Catherine's College, Cambridge, 
where he graduated B. A. 1839, M. A. 1861. He was ordained Deacon in 
1 841, and Priest in 1842. He afterwards became Curate of S. Andrew's, 
Clifton, and entered upon his present incumbency of S. Peter's, Plymouth, 
in 1848. He has published some sermons and manuals. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; Singleton; A. 
and M.; People's; Chope; Morrell and How> Hymnal Noted; Bicker- 
steth; Hymnary. 



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226. " / think when I read that sweet story of old" 

Mrs. Jemima Luke (1841); written for a village school near Pouns- 
ford Park. It was composed in a stage coach. The original, as given by 
Rogers, consists of three eight-line verses, of which the last is here 
omitted. Of the verses retained in the text the only portion altered is 
line 3 of verse 4, which in the original reads "And many dear children 
are gathering there/' 

Jemima Thompson was born at Colebrook Terrace, Islington, in 1813. 
Her father was well known for his philanthropy. As early as her thir- 
teenth year she became an anonymous contributor to the " Juvenile 
Magazine." She subsequently published several books for children. In 
1843, she married the Rev. Samuel Luke, now minister of an Independent 
congregation at Clifton, Gloucestershire. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry ; Bickersteth. Also by Bapt. 



227. "In the vineyard of our Father." 

Anonymous. The editor cannot trace this hymn further than "Hymns : 
for Church and Home" (1859.) 



It is not adopted by any of the collections examined. 



228. " write tipon my memory, Lord." 

Isaac Watts (1715) ; in his " Divine Songs for Children." The original, 
as given by Rogers, contains four verses, of which the first two are here 
omitted. The lines altered in the text, are, in the original, as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 2, " The texts and doctrines of Thy word." 
Verse 2, line 2, " Fill up this foolish heart of mine." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Canterbury; Rogers. 



229. " Saviour, like a shepherd lead us." 

Anonymous. The editor is unable to trace this hymn further than the 
' Andover Sabbath Hymn Book." 



It is adopted by Barry; Irish; People's. Also by Presb.; Cong. 



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230. " When Jesus left His Father's throne." 

James Montgomery (1825); in his " Christian Psalmist." The text is 
unaltered, but the original contains eight lines not retained in the present 
version. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer; Irish; Marylebone; Win- 
die ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by Meth. 



231. " There is a green hill far away" 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander (1848); from her "Hymns for Little 
Children." The text (from A. and M.) is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



232. " Onward, Christian soldiers." 

Sabine Baring Gould (1865); appeared in the "Church Times." The 
text (from A. and M.) is unaltered. 

Sabine Baring Gould is a clergyman of the Church of England, and 
though young in years has already taken prominence by the number and 
character of his publications. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; A. and M.; People's; 
Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



233. " Once in royal David's city'' 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander (1848); in her "Hymns for Little Chil- 
dren." The text (from A. and M.) is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; People's. 



234. "My God, accept my heart this day." 

Matthew Bridges (1848); in "Hymns of the Heart." "Mr. Bridges 
has produced one hymn among the very few that are altogether perfect — 
at once faultless and complete. Were we asked to name the fifty finest 
English hymns, this must be one of them." (Bird's "Notes on Hymnody" 
in the "Protestant Churchman" Dec. 12, 1867.) One verse, the fourth in 
the original, is here omitted. 

The original has in verse 2, line 4, "Let" instead of "And," and in 
verse 3, line 4, "at" instead of "near." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Canterbury. Also by Presb. 



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235. " happy day, that stays my choice." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 175 1). The third verse in the original is here 
omitted. Lines which are altered in the text are in the original (as given 
by Rogers) as follows : — 

Verse 1, line I, " O happy day that fix'd my choice." 
" 4, " And tell its raptures all abroad." 

Verse 2, line 4, " While to that sacred shrine I move." 

Verse 3, " Now rest, my long-divided heart ! 

Fix'd on this blissful centre, rest ! 
who with earth would grudge to part 
When call'd with angels to be bless 'd?" 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Windle; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



236. " yesus, I my cross have taken" 

Henry Francis Lyte (1825). The original has six verses, of which the 
second and third are here omitted. The text is unaltered. There is some 
doubt, owing to a misprint of the original, it is said, whether the seventh 
line of the third verse is correct ; and whether it should not read thus : — 
" What thy Saviour did to win thee." 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; Barry; Elliott; Windle; Bicker- 
steth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



237. " My faith looks up to Thee." 

Ray Palmer (1830) ; first published in 1833, with music arranged by Dr. 
Lowell Mason. It has been "translated into Arabic, and sung in many 
missionary stations ; one of the very few American hymns that have been 
naturalized in England." (Schaff.) The text (from the author's "Hymns 
and Sacred Pieces" New York, 1 865) is unaltered. 

Ray Palmer was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, in 1808. He 
studied at Phillip's Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated at Yale 
College in 1830. In 1835, he was ordained pastor of a Congregational 
Society in Bath, Maine, from which he removed, in 1850, to the pastorate 
of a Congregational Society in Albany, N. Y. He has published many 
hymns, some of his own authorship, and some translations. He has also 
published some sermons and reviews. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; Barry; Singleton; Bickersteth; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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238. " Thine for ever: — God of love.' 



Mrs. Mary Fawler Maude (1848); printed in her "Twelve Letters on 
Confirmation" and inserted in the collection of the Rev. W. W. How. 
The text (from Morrell and How) is unaltered. 

Mrs. Maude is the wife of the Rev. Joseph Maude, Vicar of Chirk, 
near Ruabon, England. She is also the author of several other publi- 
cations. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; Singleton; A. 
and M.; Elliott; Morrell and How; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; 
Ref. Ch. 

239. " Witness, ye men and angels; now." 

Benjamin Beddome (d. 1795). The text is from S. P. C. K., unaltered. 

The author was born at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 
1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, 
and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at 
Bourton-on-the- Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, 
he received the degree of M. A. from the Baptist College in Providence, 
Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His 
hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommen- 
dation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a " writer 
worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Bapt. 



240. "Draw, Holy Ghost, Thy seven-fold veil." 

John Keble (1827); in the "Christian Year." The original (on con- 
firmation) has ten verses, of which the verses in the text are the seventh 
and tenth. The only alteration in the text is in verse 2, line 2, which 
reads in the original thus : — " That blessing dear, that dove-like hand" 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



241. "Lord, shall Thy children come to Thee." 

Samuel Hinds (1834); from his "Sonnets and other Short Poems, 
chiefly on Sacred Subjects." " A hymn, I think, rarely equalled in beauty, 
and pathos, and power." {Bickersteth^ The changes in the text, which is 
from Bickersteth, are immaterial. 

Samuel Hinds was born in the island of Barbadoes, in 1793. He was 
educated at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1815. He was after- 
wards Vice-Principal of Alban Hall, Oxford, and subsequently Principal 



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of Codrington College, Barbadoes. Returning to England, he was ap- 
pointed Vicar of Yardley, Herts, holding this position from 1834 to 1843. 
He then went to Ireland, and became Rector and Prebendary of Castle- 
knoch, Dublin, and Chaplain to Archbishop Whately. He became Dean 
of Carlisle in 1848, and Bishop of Norwich in 1849. He resigned his See 
in 1857, and retired into private life. He died in 1872. He was the 
author of several publications. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Marylebone; 
Windle; Chope; Bickersteth. 



242. "Arm these Thy soldiers, mighty Lord." 

Christopher Wordsworth (1862) ; part of a hymn of eleven verses. The 
lines altered in the text are in the original as follows : — 

Verse 1, line r, "Arm these Thy youthful soldiers, Lord." 

Verse 2, line 3, " Thus consecrated, Lord, to Thee, 
" 4, May each a living temple be? 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



243. " His mercy and His truth? 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxv. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. 



244. " May God accept our vow." 

A Metrical Psalm from some untraced source. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



245. " God of hosts, the mighty Lord." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm Ixxxiv. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S.P.C.K.; Barry; Sarum; 
Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Church; Islington; Canterbury; Chope; 
Morrell and How. Also by Cong. 



246. "How welcome was the call." 

Henry W. Baker (1861) ; in "Hymns Ancient and Modern." The text 
is from A. and M. (omitting one verse), unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; A. and M. 



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247. " Deign this tinion to approve?' 

William Bengo Collyer (1837); in " Services suited to the Solemnization 
of 'Matrimony, Baptism, etc." The text is unaltered. 

William Bengo Collyer was born at Blackheath Hill, in 1782, and 
studied at Homerton College. Before completing his twentieth year he 
became pastor of a Congregational society at Peckham, continuing in that 
position through his life. He died in 1854. He received the degree of 
D. D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1808. For many years he was 
one of the most popular Dissenting ministers in London. He published 
many hymns and some works on theology. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



248. " The voice that breathed o'er Eden" 

John Keble (1857). The original has eight verses, of which the third 
is here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; 
A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Afford ; Chope; Hymnal Noted; Bicker- 
steth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. 



249. " Our hearts to Thee in prayer we bow" 

The only collection in which the editor is able to find this hymn, is that 
of Barry, where it is assigned to W. C. Dix. The text is from that collec- 
tion, unaltered. 



250. " When gathering clouds around I view" 

Robert Grant (1806) ; in the " Christian Observer" February, 1806. It 
appeared again in the same magazine, February, 1812, with a letter ex- 
plaining that it is sent in an altered form. The letter is signed " E y, 

D. R." The original, as given by Rogers, consists of six verses, of which 
the third is here omitted. The only alterations in the text will appear 
from the following original lines : — 

Verse 3, line 4, " The sickening anguish of despair." 
Verse 5, line 4, " My bed of death — for Thou hast died." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. 
Barry ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Afford ; , Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Conp\ 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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251. "Lord, as to Thy dear cross we flee ." 

John Hampden Gurney (1838); from his "Psalms and Hymns for 
Public Worship, etc." The original, as given by Rogers, contains six 
verses, of which the fifth is here omitted. The text of the verses retained 
is unaltered. 

John Hampden Gurney was born in London, in 1802. He studied at 
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B. A. 1824, M. A. 1828 ; was or- 
dained Deacon in 1827, and Priest in 1828. He was Curate of Lutter- 
worth from 1827 to 1844, an d Rector of S. Mary's, Marylebone, from 
1847 till his death in 1862. He was also a Prebendary of S. Paul's. He 
was a man of great activity in religious work. He was the author of 
numerous lectures, sermons, etc., and wrote and edited some other works, 
amongst which is the collection of hymns known as " Marylebone." 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Singleton; 
A. and M.; Elliott ; Alford ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong. 



252. " When our heads are bowed with woe" 

Henry Hart Milman (1827); in Heber's "Hymns Written and Adapted 
to the Weekly Church Service of the Year" The text is unaltered except 
in the last line of each verse, which, in the original, reads " Gracious Son 
of Mary, hear ! " 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum ; 
Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal 
Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong. 



253. " Thou art my hiding-place, Lord ! " 

Thomas Raffles (1843). The text is like the original as given by Rogers, 
except that in the last two lines of the first verse, " the " is substituted for 
" my." 

Thomas Raffles was born in London, in 1788. He studied at Homer- 
ton College, and in 1809 became pastor of a Congregational society at 
Hammersmith. In 1812, he removed to Liverpool, where he was minister 
in the Great George Street Chapel. This position he held for forty-nine 
years. He died at Liverpool, in 1863. He published several sermons, 
letters of travel, poems, and hymns for the use of his congregation. 

This hymn is adopted by Bickersteth ■ Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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254. " Thy way, not mine, Lord?' 

Horatius Bonar (1856); in "Hymns of Faith and Hope" First Series. 
The original consists of seven four-line verses, the fourth of which is here 
omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Barry; Sarum; Elliott; Alford; 
Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong. 



255. " When musing sorrow weeps the past" 

Gerard Thomas Noel (1819); in "CotterilVs Selection." The text 
(from Rogers) is unaltered, except that the original in verse 5, line I, 
has "harassed" instead of "tortur'd." 

Gerard Thomas Noel was born in 1782. His studies were pursued at 
the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. He graduated M. A. 
from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was successively Curate of Rad- 
well, Vicar of Rainham, and Curate of Richmond. In 1834, he was 
Canon of Winchester, and in 1840, Vicar of Romsey, where he died in 
185 1. He published some Sketches of Travel, and a Selection of Psalms 
and Hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry ; Islington ; Windle ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



256. " My God, my Father, while I stray." 

Miss Charlotte Elliott (1834); appeared in the Appendix to the 
"Invalid's Hymn Book" (1835). The original, as given by Palmer, (and 
approved as correct by Miss Elliott,) contains eight verses, of which the 
fifth and eighth are here omitted. The only portion of the text which is 
materially altered is the fourth verse. It reads in the original as follows : — 

" Though Thou hast called me to resign 
What most I prized, it ne'er was mine, 
/ have but yielded what was Thine ; 
Thy will be done ! " 

The following are the omitted verses : — 

u Should grief or sickness waste away " Then, when on earth I breathe no more, 

My life in premature decay, The prayer, oft mixed with tears before, 

My Father ! still I strive to say, I'll sing upon a happier shore, 

Thy will be done." Thy will be done." 

Charlotte Elliott was a granddaughter of the celebrated preacher, the 
Rev. John Venn, a daughter of the Rev. Henry Venn Elliott, of S. Mary's, 
Brighton (d. 1841), and sister of the Rev. Edward B. Elliott, the author of 



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"Horae Apocalypticae." She died in 1871, at a very advanced age. She 
wrote several volumes, and contributed 117 hymns to "The Invalid's 
Hymn Book." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Marylebone; 
Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Also by Presb.; Cong. 



257. " Whatever my God ordains is right!' 
(Was Gott thut, das is wohlgethan.) 

Samuel Rodigast (1675); translated by Catherine Winkworth (1858) in 
" Lyra Germanica" Second Series. The original translation has six verses, 
the third of which is here omitted. The text of the verses retained does 
not differ from the original as given by Palmer. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry ; Alford ; Palmer. 



258. ' 'Lord, let me know my term of days." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxix. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Singleton. 



259. "Hear what the voice from heaven declares!' 

Prayer Book Collection of 1789. The second, third and fifth verses are 
by Watts, altered ; the other two are uncertain. 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble. 



260. "Asleep in yesus ! blessed sleep ! " 

Mrs. Margaret Mackay (1832); appeared first in "The Amethyst." 
The original, as given by Rogers, has six verses, the fifth of which is here 
omitted. The only alteration in the text is in verse 2, line 4, where the 
original has " venom' d" instead of "painful." 

Margaret Mackay is a daughter of Captain Robert Mackay, who, on 
retiring from active service, settled at Hedgefield, near Inverness. She 
was married, in 1820, to Lieut.-Col. William Mackay. She has published 
some books, and several fugitive pieces. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry; Windle; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



no ^notations. 



261. " Not for the dead in Christ we weep." 

The "Baptist Collection" in which alone of the Hymnals examined 
this hymn is to be found, assigns it to Mrs. Barbauld. 



262. " Safe Home, safe Ho?ne in port /" 

S. Joseph of the Studium (ab. 850) ; translated by John Mason Neale 
(1862) in "Hymns of the Eastern Church'' The last two verses of the 
translation, as given in Hymnal Noted, are here omitted. The text is 
unaltered, except that in verse 2, line 2, the original has "athlete" instead 
of "warrior." 

S. Joseph was born in Sicily, but left his country on its occupation by 
the Mahometans, in 830. He became a monk at Thessalonica and Con- 
stantinople. Removing to Rome he was taken by pirates, and for many 
years was enslaved in Crete. Regaining his liberty he reached Rome, and 
enjoyed the friendship of S. Ignatius. He was also a friend of Photius, 
the Patriarch of Constantinople, with whom he went into exile. After 
being recalled from exile he devoted himself entirely to the composition 
of hymns, of which he produced a great number. His Canon for Ascen- 
sion is the most meritorious of his works. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Hymnal Noted; 
Hymnary. 



263. " Tender Shepherd, Thou hast stilled." 
(Guten Hirt, du hast gestillet.) 

John William Meinhold (</. 1851); translated by Catherine Wink worth 
(1858) in "Lyra Gertnanica" Second series. The text is altered only in 
the first word, which is "Tender" instead of " Gentle" as in the original. 

John William Meinhold was born on the island of Usedom, in 1797. 
After studying theology at Greifswalde, he became Rector in Usedom, 
subsequently assuming that position in several parishes. When the Revo- 
lution in 1848 broke out he opposed it. In 1850 he resigned his living. 
He died in 1851. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



264. " My soul with grateful thoughts of love! ' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxvi. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



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265. "Fierce was the wild billow" 
(Zotyspag TpiK.vfj.lac.) 

S. Anatolius (458) ; translated by John Mason Neale in "Hymns of the 
Eastern Church? " This is one of Neale's happiest renderings of an 
original in which the Scripture account of Christ's stilling the waves is 
most vividly pictured, and skillfully applied to the spiritual life." The 
text is from Sarum, and differs in a few lines from the text in some other 
Hymnals, which is as follows : — 

" Foam glittered white ; 
Trembled the mariners, 
Peril was high? 

" Wail of Euroclydon." 

" Sorrow can never be, 

Darkness must fly." 

"Whisper, Thou Truth of Truth." 

S. Anatolius' life began in a time of conflict. He was a legate from 
the unscrupulous monarch Dioscones to the Emperor's Court. At the 
death of S. Flavian, the Byzantine pontiff, the vacant throne was given to 
S. Anatolius. This position he filled with firmness and honour. To him 
also was due the decree passed at the Council of Chalcedon (451) that 
Constantinople should hold the second place among the Patriarchal Sees. 
He died in the year 458. His compositions are few and short, but full of 
life and beauty. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; People's ; Elliott ; Hymnary. 



266. " When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming? 

Reginald Heber (1820). The text differs slightly from the original as 
given by Rogers. The original has "Help," instead of "Save," in the 
last line of each verse. The other changes may be seen from the follow- 
ing original lines : — 

Verse 2, line 1, " O Jesus ! once toss'd on the breast of the billow." 
" 4, " Who cries in his danger, Help, Lord, or we perish." 

Verse 3, line 2, " When hell in our hearts his wild warfare is waging, 
" 3, Arise in Thy strength Thy redeemed to cherish." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Sarum ; Hymnary ; Rogers. Also by 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



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267. " Eternal Fallier / strong to save :" 

William Whiting (i860); written for " Hymns Ancient and Modern" 
but much altered by the compilers of that work. The original is as fol- 
lows : — 

O Thou Who bidd 'st the ocean deep O Sacred Spirit ! Who didst brood 

Its own appointed limits keep, Upon the chaos dark and rude, 

Thou Who dost bind the restless wave, Who bad 'st its angry tumult cease, 

Eternal Father, strong to save, And light diffused, and life, and peace, 
O hear us when we cry to Thee O hear us when we cry to Thee 

For all in peril on the sea. For all in peril on the sea. 

O Saviour ! Whose Almighty Word O Trinity of love and power ! 

The winds and waves submissive heard, Our brethren shield in danger's hour ; 

Who walkedst on the foaming deep, From rock and tempest, them defend; 

And calm amid its rage didst sleep ; To safety's harbour them attend ; 

O hear us when we cry to Thee And ever let there rise to Thee 

For all in peril on the sea. Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. 

William Whiting was born in London, in 1825. He was educated at 
Clapham and at Winchester, and for more than twenty years has been 
Master of Winchester College Choristers' School. He is the author of 
several poems. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; A. and M. ; 
Elliott ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



268. " Thou Who didst prepare? 

Mrs. Tonna (Charlotte Elizabeth) (d. 1846). The text is considerably 
altered. The following is the original (excepting the omitted lines) sup- 
plied to the editor by the Rev. F. M. Bird. 

O Thou Who didst prepare For He is nigh, Who trod 

The ocean's c av erne d cell, Amid that foaming spray, 

And bad'st the gathering waters there Whose billows own'd the incarnate God, 

To meet and dwell. And died away. 

Toss'd in our reeling bark Though swells the confluent tide, 

On this tumultuous sea, And. battles far above, 

Thy wondrous ways, O Lord, we mark, We know in Whom our souls confide, 

And sing to Thee. With fearless love. 

Charlotte Elizabeth was born at Norwich, in 1790. Her father, the 
Rev. Michael Browne, was Rector of S. Giles' parish in that city. She 
married Captain George Phelan, of the army, but the union proved an 
unhappy one. Thrown upon her own resources, she contributed to the 
Dublin Tract Society, and in 1834, became editor of "The Christian 
Ladies' Magazine." Her husband died in 1837. In 1840, she married 
Mr. L. H. Tonna, but continued to retain her two Christian names as her 
literary designation. She died in 1846. Her works are very numerous. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



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269. "Lord, for the just Thou dost provide? 

Prayer Book Collection of 1789 ; rewritten from Joseph Addison (1712), 
in the " Spectator? No. 489. The hymn is entitled " The Traveller's 
Hymn? beginning 

"How are Thy servants blest, Lord? 

The original version is given in Rogers' " Lyra Britannica? p. 5. 

Joseph Addison was born at Milston, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672. He was 
educated in the Charter House, London, and at Oxford. His father was 
Rector of Milston, afterwards Dean of Lichfield, and designed him for 
the ministry ; but he was attracted to law and politics. He attained an 
early celebrity as a writer of verses, and at the age of twenty-seven re- 
ceived a pension of ^"300 a year. By this he was enabled to travel on the 
continent, and on his return he published his travels, as well as some 
poems. He held successively several important State offices, retiring at 
last on an allowance of ^"1500 a year. He died June 17, 1719. The 
fame of Addison rests chiefly upon the part he took in the production of 
the essays that were begun in his time, under the names of the " Tatler? 
the " Spectator? and the " Guardian? 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. (which alone has this version) ; Hall ; 
Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Elliott; Islington; Bickersteth; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



270. " Lord, pour Thy Spirit from on high? 

James Montgomery (1835). The following is the original version of 
this hymn as given by Palmer. 

Pour out Thy Spirit from on high, To bear Thy people on our heart. 

Lord, Thine assembled servants bless ; And love the souls whom Thou dost love ; 
Graces and gifts to each supply, [ness. 

And clothe Thy priests with righteous- To love, and pray, and never faint, 

By day and night strict guard to keep, 
Within Thy temple when we stand, To warn the sinner, cheer the saint, 

To teach the truth as taught by Thee, Nourish Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 
Saviour, like stars in Thy right hand 

The angels of the Churches be. Thus when our work is finish'd here, 

In humble hope our charge resign ; 
Wisdom, and zeal, and faith impart, When the Chief Shepherd shall appear^ 

Firmness with meekness from above, O God! may they and we be Thine. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S.P.C.K.; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; Marylebone; 
Windle; Canterbury; Chope ; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hym- 
nary; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



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271. " Father of mercies, bow Thine ear' 



Benjamin Beddome (1787); in " Ripporis Collection" The text is unal- 
tered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Islington; Windle. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 



272. " Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures y 
{Psaltat chorus corde mundo.) 

Founded partly on the sequence by Adam of S. Victor (d. ab. 1192), be- 
ginning " Jucundare plebo fidelis" the first two verses by Robert Campbell 
(1850), the last verse by the compilers of "Hymns Ancient and Modern" 
(1861). The only alteration in the text is in verse I, line 5, where the 
original has "declaration" instead of "proclamation." 

It is uncertain whether Adam was born in Great Britain or in Brittany. 
In history he is called a Briton. About the year 1 1 30, he entered a her- 
mitage near Paris, named after S. Victor of Marseilles — hence his own 
name. Little is known of his life. He died about the year 1192. His 
poetical works are of the highest character. Indeed, the highest position 
among sacred poets is claimed for him, because, out of one hundred of his 
pieces, at least fifty are of the highest excellence. Trench thus speaks of 
him : " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the theology 
of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture ; the abundant 
and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his 
poems from the merely subjective cast of those, beautiful as they are, of 
S. Bernard ; the exquisite art and variety with which, for the most part, 
his verse is managed and his rhymes disposed — their rich melody multi- 
plying and ever deepening at the close ; the strength which he often con- 
centrates into a single line ; his skill in conducting a narration ; and, most 
of all, the evident nearness of the things which he celebrates to his own 
heart of hearts — all these, and other excellences, render him, as far as my 
judgment goes, the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the Middle 
Ages." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Hymnary. 

273. " Go forth, ye heralds, in My Name? 

Anonymous. Prayer Book Collection of 1 789. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



274. "How beautiful the feet that bring" 

John Mason (1683); a piece entitled "A Song of Praise for a Gospel 
Ministry!' The text differs considerably from the original, the larger 
portion having been rewritten. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Singleton. 



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275. " This stone to Thee in faith we lay" 

James Montgomery (1822). The text is from Bickersteth, unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; Alford; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Meth. 



276. " Lord of hosts, Whose glory fills." 

John Mason Neale (1844); in " Hymns for Children" Second Series. 
The last verse of the original is here omitted. The text is from People's, 
unaltered ; in one or two lines it varies very slightly from the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Singleton ; A. and M.; People's ; Chope. 



277. " With one consent let all the earth." 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm c. The first text (1696) is entirely 
different from the present,, but it was changed by Tate and Brady before 
1703. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Elliott ; 
Church ; Islington ; Morrell and How! Also by Cong. 



278. "I'll wash my hands in innocence!' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxvi. Somewhat altered. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



279. " Christ is our Corner Stone." 
(Angulare Fundamentum.) 

The Latin origin of this hymn is uncertain. This translation is by 
John Chandler (1837). The text is from A. and M., unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; A. andM.; 
Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; Marylebone; Bickersteth; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Kef. Ch. 



280. " with due reverence let us all." 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxxii. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. 



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281. " 'twas a joyful sound to hear" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Singleton; Windle; 
Morrell and How. Also by Cong.; Bapt. 



282. " Christ is made the sure foundation" 
{Angulare Fundamentum.) 

The origin of this Latin hymn is uncertain. This version is a transla- 
tion by John Mason Neale (1851) in " Hymnal Noted" ; but the text, 
from A. and M., is altered. The following version is from "Hymnal 

Noted":— 

Christ is made the sure Foundation Hear Thy people as they pray ; 

And the precious Corner-stone, And Thy fullest benediction 

Who, the two-fold walls sur7nounting Shed within its walls for aye. 

Binds them closely into one, 
Holy Sion's help forever, Here vouchsafe to all Thy servants 

And her confidence alone. That they supplicate to gain ; 

Here to have and hold for ever 
All that dedicated city, Those good things their prayers obtain ; 

Dearly loved by God on high, And hereafter in Thy Glory 

In exultant jubilation With Thy blessed ones to reign. 

Pours perpetual melody ; 
God the One, and God the Trinal, Laud and. honour to the Father, 

Singing everlastingly. Laud and honour to the Son, 

Laud and honour to the Spirit, 
To this Temple, where we call Thee, Ever Three and ever One, 

Come, O Lord of Hosts, to-day : Consubstantial, Co-eternal, 

With Thy wonted loving-kindness, While unending ages run. 

This hymn is adopted by Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M.; People's ; 
Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



283. "From Greenland' 's icy mountains" 

Reginald Heber (1819). The origin of this hymn was as follows: — 
Heber's father-ui-law — the Rev. Dr. Shipley, Dean of S. Asaph and Vicar 
of Wrexham, was to preach a missionary sermon in Wrexham Church on 
Whitsunday, 18 19. In the evening of that day, Heber was to deliver a 
lecture in the same church. On the previous day, while together at the 
vicarage, the Dean requested Heber to write something for them to sing 
in the morning. Heber retired for that purpose from the table, where the 
Dean and a few others were sitting, to another part of the room. In a 
short time the Dean asked him what he had written. Heber, having then 
composed the first three verses, read them over. " There, there — that will 
do very well," said the Dean. "No, no— the sense is not complete." 



Annotations* II7 

replied Heber. Accordingly he added the fourth verse, and thus com- 
pleted the hymn which has since been sung so frequently among all 
bodies of Christians. The hymn was sung the next morning in Wrexham 
Church for the first time. 

The original reads in lines I and 3 of verse 3, "Can" instead of 
"Shall." The word "Ceylon" in line 2 of verse 2, was afterwards 
changed to "Java," by Heber, when he was in India, but the earlier 
reading is generally retained. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; Hall; Kemble; Mercer ; S. P. C. K. 
Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M. ; Elliott ; Alford ; Church 
Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How 
Bickersteth; Hymnary ; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



284. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun" 

Isaac Watts (1719) ; a rendering of Psalm lxxii. The original has eight 
verses, of which the second, third, and seventh are here omitted. Portions 
of the text altered from the original, as given by Rogers, are as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 1, "For Him shall endless prayer be made." 
Verse 4, line 2, " The prisoner leaps to lose his chains." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; A. and M.; Elliott; Church; Islington; Maryle- 
bone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



285. " To bless Thy chosen race" 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm lxvii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P.C. K.; Barry; Single- 
ton ; Elliott ; Islington ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bick- 
ersteth. Also by Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



286. " On Sion and on Lebanon?' 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826); in the Prayer Book Collection. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



287. "Arm of the Lord, awake, awake." 

William Shrubsole (1795); appeared in "Missionary Hymns." The 
third and fourth verses of the original are here omitted. The text is 
unaltered. 



n8 Annotations* 

William Shrubsole was born in Sheerness, Kent, in 1759. His first 
occupation was as a shipwright in Sheerness Dockyard, but he was pro- 
moted, and afterwards removed to London, where he at length held the 
position of Secretary to the Committee of the Treasury in the Bank of 
England. He died at Highbury, in 1829. Mr. Shrubsole was the author 
of several hymns, and some articles in the religious magazines of his day. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Islington; Windle ; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 

288. * O'er the gloomy hills of darkness'' 
(Dros y brynnian tywyll niwlog.) 

William Williams (1772) ; in his " Gloria in Excelsis." Three verses of 
the original are here omitted. Lines altered in the text are as follows in 
the original : — 

Verse I, line 1, " O'er those gloomy hills of darkness." 

" 3, " All the promises do travel 

" 4, On a glorious day of grace." 

Verse 2, line 2, "Let them have the glorious light." 

Verse 3, line 3, "May Thy eternal wide dominions." 

William Williams, called the " Watts of Wales," was born in 1717, at 
Cefn-y-coed, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. He originally studied 
medicine, but abandoned it for theology. He was ordained Deacon in the 
Church of England, but was refused Priest's Orders, and subsequently 
attached himself to the Calvinistic Methodists. For half a century he 
travelled in Wales, preaching the Gospel. He died in 1791. Williams 
composed his hymns chiefly in the Welsh language ; they are still largely 
used by various religious bodies in the principality. Many of his hymns 
have appeared in English, and have been collected and published by 
Sedgwick. His two principal poetical works are " Hosannah to the Son 
of David" and " Gloria in Excelsis'* <*. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Elliott ; Islington ; Windle ; 
Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



289. "From all that dwell below the skies." 

Isaac Watts (17 19) ; a rendering of Psalm cxvii. The only lines altered 
are in the original as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 3, "Let the Redeemer's Name be sung." 
Verse 2, line 2, "Eternal truth attends Thy word." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Irish; Elliott; Church; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; 
Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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290. " Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim? 

Anonymous. The editor can trace it no further than " WinchelVs Col- 
lection " (Boston, 1817). 

It is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



291. "And is the time approaching." 

Miss Jane Borthwick (1863); in "Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours? 
The text is without alteration. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



292. " Souls in heathen darkness lying? 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander (1850); appeared in "Legend of the 
Golden Prayer" (1859). Some verses of the original are omitted. The 
text, which is from Sarum, differs from the original in the second and third 
verses : their original reading is as follows : — 

Christians, say they, none has taught us Haste, O haste, to spread the tidings 

Of His love so deep and dear ; Let no shore be left untrod; 

Of the precious price that bought us, Let no brother's bitter chidings 

Of the nail, the thorn, the spear ; Haunt us from the furthest sod ; 

Ye who know Him Tell the heathen 

Guide us from our darkness drear. All the precious truth of God. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum ; Canterbury. 



293. " When, Lord, to this our western land? 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826); in the Prayer Book Collection. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



294. " why should Lsrael's sons once blessed? 

James Joyce (1809); in "The Christian Observer? For the first two 
words, "O why," the original has " Wherefore;" and the two couplets of 
the first verse are transposed in the text. There are changes in other lines 
of the text which read in the original as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 1, "Lord, visit Thy forsaken race." 

Verse 4, line 2, " When Jew and Greek one prayer shall pour? 
" 4, "One God with grateful heart adore? 



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No memoir of this author has been published. He published several 
works ; and he wrote many hymns that were never published, it being his 
custom, morning after morning, to present pieces of poetry to his children 
at breakfast. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Elliott; Islington; Bickersteth. 



295. "High on the bending willows hung. 

Anonymous. The editor is unable to trace this hymn. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Cong. 



296. " Fountain of good, to own Thy love' 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). This is an altered but generally used form 
of the author's hymn beginning, 

" Jesus, my Lord, how rich Thy grace" 

The following original of the text is contributed by the Rev. F. M. Bird, 
who also says that verse one of the text is not Doddridge's : — 

Fountain of good, to own Thy love In them Thou may'st be clothed and fed, 

Our thankful hearts incline ; A nd visited and cheer 'd ; 

What can we render, Lord, to Thee, And in their accents of distress 

When all the worlds are Thine ? My Saviour's voice is heard. 

But Thou hast brethren here below Thy face with reverence and with love 

The partners of Thy grace, / in Thy poor would see ; 

And wilt confess their humble names O rather let me beg my bread 

Before Thy Father's face. Than hold it back from. Thee. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; A. and M.; 
Alford; Canterbury; Bickersteth. 



297. " Rich are the joys which cannot die." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). The text is made up of verses three, five, 
and six of Doddridge's hymn 309. The original of lines altered in the 
text is as follows : — 

Verse I, line 1, " But there are joys which cannot die, 
" 2, Which God laid up in store ; 
" 3, Treasure beyond the changing sky." 

Verse 3, line 1, " The mite my willing hands can give." 
" 4, " A nd Heaven at large repay." 



This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



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298. " Sow in the morn Thy seedy 

James Montgomery (1836). Three verses of the original are here 
omitted. The text is without material alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry; Windle; Canterbury; Bickersteth. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



299. " We give Thee but Thine own." 

William Walsham How (1864); from his " Psalms and Hymns? The 
text (from Morrell and How) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Singleton ; A. and M.; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



300. " Lord, lead the way the Saviour went." 

William Croswell (d. 185 1). The text is unaltered. 

The author was born at Hudson, N. Y., in 1804. He graduated at 
Yale College in 1823 ; was Rector of Christ Church, Boston, 1829-40 ; 
Rector of S. Peter's Church, Auburn, N. Y., 1840-44; and Rector of the 
Church of the Advent, Boston, from 1844 till his death in 185 1. He 
was the author of several pieces of poetry, which may be seen in his 
"Memoirs" by his father. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K. Also by Cong.; Bapt. 



301. " O come, loud anthems let us sing." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xcv. The text is from Bickersteth, who, 
to " obviate the baldness and retain the thought," alters the last two coup- 
lets of the first and fourth verses. The original read thus : — 

Verse 1, line 3, "For we our voices high should raise, 

" 4, When our salvation's Rock we praise." 

Verse 4, line 3, "Down on our knees devoutly all . 
" 4, Before the Lord our Maker fall." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Elliott; Church; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Morrell and How; 
Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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302. '■''Praise to God, immortal praise" 

Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1773). Rewritten in the Prayer Book 
Collection (1826). The original consists of nine four-line verses. The 
present version is so little like the original that it may almost be called 
another hymn. Mrs. Barbauld's hymn may be found in Rogers' '■'Lyra 
Britannica" p. 33. 

Adopted (generally with the author's version) by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kem- 
ble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; Singleton; Elliott; Alford; Windle; 
Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Palmer ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



303. "Now thank we all our God." 
(Nun danket alle Gott.) 

Martin Rinkart (1644); translated by Catherine Winkworth (1858) in 
"Lyra Germanica," Second Series. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is a metrical version of Ecclesiasticus, 1. 22-24, an( i was 
written, it is believed, about the year 1644, in the prospect of a reestab- 
lishment of peace. It has been called the popular German " Te Deum" 

Martin Rinkart was born in Eilenburg, Saxony, in 1586. His father 
being poor, Martin supported himself by his musical skill while studying 
theology at Leipsic. Subsequently he became pastor in his native town, 
continuing there during the Thirty Years' War, and long after. He died 
in 1649. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry; Irish; Sarum; A. and M.; People's; 
Elliott ; Alford ; Chope ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



304. " Salvation doth to God belong" 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). From his hymn 374, and mostly rewritten. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



305. "Praise, praise our God and King?' 

Henry Williams Baker (1861); in "Hymns Ancient and Modern!' 
"Partly suggested by Milton's version of Psalm cxxxvi." The text is 
from A. and M. unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Irish ; A. and M.; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also 
by Ref. Ch. 



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306. " Come, ye thankful people, come" 

Henry Alford (1844). The text is from the author's " Year of Praise " 
(1867), unaltered, but it differs somewhat from his earlier version. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; 
Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Canterbury; Chope; 
Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



307. " Before the Lord we bow? 

Francis Scott Key (1832). Two verses of the original are here omitted. 
Lines altered in the text are, in the original, as follows : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " Enjoying peace and rest? 
Verse 4, line 4, "Bright is the promised crown? 

Francis Scott Key was born in Frederick County, Md., in 1779. He 
was educated at S. John's College, Annapolis, and in 1801 commenced the 
practice of law in Washington, which was his home until his death in 
1843. He was the author of a number of poems, but is most widely 
known by his hymn " The Star-spangled Banner? inspired by the author's 
position as a prisoner with the British in 18 14, during the bombardment 
of Fort McHenry, which guards the entrance to Baltimore. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



308. "Lord God, we worship Thee? 
(Herr Gott, wir danken Dir.) 

Johann Frank (1653); translated by Catherine Winkworth (1862) in 
" Chorale Book? The last verse of the original is here omitted, tmt the 
text of the verses retained does not differ materially from that in the 
Hymnary, in which alone, of the collections examined, the hymn is to be 
found. 

Johann Frank was born in Guben, Saxony, in 1618. He was educated 
to the profession of law, occupying, during his life, positions of honour. 
He died in 1677. He was a friend of several of the poets of his time, 
and composed one hundred and ten hymns, which, in the opinion of Miss 
Winkworth, rank next to those of Gerhardt, among the German hymn- 
writers. 



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309. " God bless our native land.' 



John S. Dwight (1844). The text is unaltered. 

The author is the son of Dr. Timothy Dwight, once President of Yale 
College. He has composed several hymns, and, in conjunction with 
others, has made good translations of some minor poems of Goethe and 
Schiller. 

This hymn is adopted by Cong.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



310. " Dread Jehovah, God of nations? 

C F (1804); in "The Christian Observer." The original has 

eight lines more than the present version. Lines altered in the text are as 
follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " Fasting, praying, weeping, mourning." 
Verse 3, line 4, "Jesus' blood can cleanse them all." 
Verse 4, line 1, "Let that mercy veil transgression." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Islington; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb. ; Cong.; Meth. 



311. "Almighty Lord, before Thy throne? 

Miss Anne Steele, "On the Public Fast, February 6, 1756." Two 
verses of the original are here omitted. The text is considerably altered, 
as will be seen from the following original version of the verses retained : — 

See, gracious God, before Thy throne What impious numbers, bold in sin, 

Thy mourning people bend ; Disgrace the Christian name ! 

'Tis on Thy sovereign grace alone 

Our humble hopes depend. O bid us turn, A /mighty Lord ! 

By Thy resistless grace ; 
Tremendous judgments, from Thy hand, Then shall our hearts obey Thy word, 

Thy dreadful power display ; And humbly seek Thy face. 

Yet mercy spares our guilty land, 

And still we live to pray. Then, should insulting" foes invade, 

We will not yield to fear, 
How changed, alas ! are truths divine Secure of never-failing aid, 

For error, guilt, and shame ! If God, our God, is near. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Morrell 
and How. 



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312. " God of love, King of peace." 

Henry Williams Baker (1861) ; in " Hymns Ancient and Modern" The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Irish ; A. and M.; Alford. 



313. "Now may the God of grace and power? 

Isaac Watts (1719) ; Psalm xx. This version is made up of verses one, 
four, five and seven, and is somewhat altered in parts, as will be seen from 
the following corresponding verses in the original : — 

Now may the God of power and grace Some trust in horses train'd for war, 

Attend His people's humble cry ; And some of chariots make their boasts ; 

Jehovah hears when Israel prays, Our surest expectations are 

And brings deliverance from on high. From Thee, the Lord of heavenly hosts. 

In His salvation is our hope ; Now save us, Lord, from slavish fear, 
And in the Name of Israel's God, Now let our hopes be firm and strong, 

Our troops shall lift their banners up, Till Thy salvation shall appear, 
Our navies spread their flags abroad. And joy and triumph raise the song. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Ref. Ch. 



314. " When streaming from the eastern skies." 

William Shrubsole (1813) ; in the " Christian Observer" This hymn is 
sometimes erroneously attributed to Sir Robert Grant. The text, as given 
by Rogers, is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer; Elliott; Marylebone; Win- 
die; Chope; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



315. " Blest be the tie that binds." 

John Fawcett (1772). "This hymn is said to have been written to 
commemorate the determination of its author to remain with his attached 
people at Wainsgate. The farewell sermon was preached, the wagons 
were loaded, when love and tears prevailed, and Dr. Fawcett sacrificed 
the attractions of a London pulpit to the affection of his poor but devoted 
flock." {Miller?) The fifth verse of the original is here omitted. The 
verses retained are as follows in the original : — 

Blest be the tie that binds Before our Father's throne 

Our hearts in Christian love : We pour our ardent prayers ; 

The fellowship of kindred minds Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one ; 

Is like to that above. Our comforts and our cares. 



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We share our mutual woes, But we shall still be join 'd in heart, 
Our mutual burdens bear ; And hope to meet again. 

And often for each other flows 

The sympathizing tear. From sorrow, toil, and pain, 

And sin, we shall be free ; 

When we asunder part, And perfect love and friendship reign 
It gives us inward pain ; Throughout eternity. 

John Fawcett was born at Lidget Green, Yorkshire, in 1739. In 1763, 
he entered the ministry of the Baptist Communion, and two years after 
was settled in a pastorate at Wainsgate. He spent his life there and at 
Hebden Bridge, in the same neighbourhood. He died in 18 17. He 
published some theological works, and a hymn book. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



316. " To Sion's hill I lift my eyes." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxi. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Church; 
Islington ; Windle ; Morrell and How. Also by Ref. Ch. 



317. " There is a blessed home." 

Henry Williams Baker (1861); in " Hymns Ancient and Modern? The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish ; Sarum ; A. and M.; 
Alford; Bickersteth ; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Ref. Ch. 



318. "Forth in Thy Name, Lord, I go." 

Charles Wesley (1749); in "Hymns and Sacred Poems? The original 
has six verses, of which the third is here omitted. Lines altered in the 
text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 4, "And prove Thine acceptable will." 

Verse 3, line 2, "Whose eyes mine inmost substance see." 

Verse 5, line 1, "For Thee delightfully employ." 

" 3, "And run my course with even joy." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
A. and M.; Alford; Church; Windle; Canterbury; Chbpe; Bickersteth; 
Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



319. " He that has God his guardian made.'* 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xci. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Barry; Church; Windle. 



320. " God, my gracious God, to Thee" 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm lxiii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; S. P. C. K.; Church. 



321. " Up to the hills I lift mine eyes" 

Isaac Watts (1719); Psalm cxxi. As given by Palmer the original has 
seven verses, the last three of which are here omitted. The text of the 
verses retained is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Elliott; Marylebone; Palmer, 
Also by Cong.; Bapt. 



322. " We build with fruitless cost, unless! 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm cxxvii. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



323. " When I can trust my all with God." 

Josiah Conder (1818); " On the Death of an Infant Son, C. J. C, ob. 
Jan., 1818." This hymn appeared in the author's " Star in the East, 
etc." (1824), and consisted of five verses. The first and last are here re- 
tained. The only alteration in the text is in verse 1, line 4, which in the 
original reads "sparing" instead of " chastening." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Elliott ; Windle ; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



324. "My God, how endless is Thy love." 

Isaac Watts (1709). The only alteration in the text is in verse 2, line 1, 
where " curtain " reads " curtains " in the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Elliott; Alford; 
Marylebone; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. 
Ch. 



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325. " Saviour, when night involves the skies" 

Thomas Gisborne (1803). The text is unaltered. 

The author was born at Derby, in 1758. He became perpetual Curate 
of Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, in 1783, and Prebendary of 
Durham in 1826. He died in 1846. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb. 



326. " God of our fathers, by Whose hand" 

This hymn was claimed by John Logan (1781); but it is unquestionably 
Doddridge's (1736), altered as it appears in his collection in 1755, and in 
the " Scotch Paraphrases " in 1745. The text maybe compared with that 
of hymn 473 in this collection. Under the latter number Doddridge's 
original version is given. 

Of Logan sufficient was said in the sketch of Michael Bruce (hymn 
222). It may be added here, however, that his literary dishonesty and 
treachery met their reward. He died poor and neglected in London. 

In the present form this hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



327. " To-morrow, Lord, is Thine" 

Philip Doddridge (1755). The text (from Palmer) is without material 
alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Meixer ; Barry ; Islington ; Windle ; 
Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also by Bapt. 



328. "Arise, my soul, with rapture rise" 

Samuel J. Smith (d. 1835). Appeared in Prayer Book Collection (1826), 
and in the author's " Miscellaneous Writings " (1836). The material alter- 
ations of the text are in the third and fourth verses, which read thus in the 
original : — 

But can it be that Power divine Will deign to lend a favouring ear y 
Whose throne is light's unbounded blaze ; When I, poor abject mortal, pray ? 

While countless worlds and angels join Yes, boundless goodness ! He will hear, 
To swell the glorious song of praise, Nor cast the meanest wretch away. 

Samuel J. Smith was born in New Jersey, in 1771, and after a secluded 
life on his paternal estate near Burlington, died in 1835. In his religious 
connection he was a Quaker. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Meth. 



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329. " New every morning is the love." 

John Keble (1827). This hymn is composed of verses six, seven, eight, 
fourteen and sixteen, of the opening hymn in " The Christian Year!* It 
is probable that this Morning Hymn — as well as the author's Evening 
Hymn — were composed some years previous to their publication in 1827. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Marylebone; Windle; 
Canterbury^; Chope; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 
Also by Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



330. " Come, my soul, thou must be waking" 

(Seele du muszt munter werden.) 

Baron Von Canitz (1654) ; translated in the "British Magazine" July, 
1838. The text (from Sarum) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum ; Singleton ; Hymnary. 

331 . " Christ, Whose glory fills the skies. 

Charles Wesley (1740); in" Hymns and Sacred Poems." The text is 
unaltered, though possibly in verse 2, line 5, the original has "Thou" 
instead of " they." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; 
Windle; Chope; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

332. "Awake, my soul, and with the sun" 

Thomas Ken id. 171 1). It is related of the author that he often sang 
his morning hymn, before dressing, to his lute — probably to the tune 
known as Tallis' Canon. The fact that this hymn was rewritten at least 
once, and probably twice, accounts for the different versions in use. The 
version in Palmer's "Book of Praise" contains the author's latest cor- 
rections. It has fourteen verses, of which five are here omitted. The 
text of the verses retained agrees with that of Palmer, except in two lines, 
which he gives as follows : — 

Verse 4, line 4, " High praise to the eternal King." 
Verse 5, line I, "Awake! Awake! Ye heavenly choir." 
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Of the Doxology, which also belongs to Ken's Evening Hymn, Mont- 
gomery says : " It is a masterpiece at once of amplification and compres- 
sion ; amplification, on the burthen, ' Praise God,' repeated in each line ; 
compression, by exhibiting God as the object of praise in every view in 
which we can imagine praise due to Him ; — praise, for all His blessings, 
yea, for ' all blessings,' none coming from any other source ; praise by every 
creature, specifically invoked, 'here below,' and in heaven 'above;' praise 
to Him in each of the characters wherein He has revealed Himself in 
His Word — ' Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.' " Probably there is no other 
verse in existence that is so often sung by all bodies of Christians. 

Thomas Ken was born at Little Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, in July, 
1637. He studied at Winchester and Oxford, graduating B. A. 1661, and 
M. A. 1664. He became a Fellow of New College, in 1657. He was 
ordained in 1661, and after holding various positions, and travelling exten- 
sively, he was appointed Chaplain to the Prince of Orange, in 1679, and 
Chaplain to Charles II., in 1682. In 1684, he was consecrated Bishop of 
Bath and Wells. In 1688, he was sent to the Tower for refusing to read 
King James' "Declaration of Indulgence." In 1691, as a non-juror, he 
was deprived of his episcopal office, and retired to Longleate, Wiltshire, 
the seat of Viscount Weymouth, where, after years of suffering, he died in 
1711. It is said that, after burying him, his attendants saluted the open- 
ing day with the strains of his " Morning Hymn." The best account of 
Ken is to be found in his Life by Anderdon (18 51). His hymns have been 
published by Sedgwick (1864). 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; 
Church; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell 
and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



333. " All praise to Thee, my God, this nighty 

Thomas Ken (d. 1711). The original has twelve verses. The text con- 
sists of the first five and the Doxology. The text (from Palmer) is 
unaltered. Of twenty-five Church Hymnals examined, which adopt this 
hymn, fifteen have the first words as in the text, " All praise," and ten the 
word " Glory." 

This hymn is adopted by all the collections examined. 



334. " The day is past and gone? 

John Leland (d. 1841). The editor is not sure concerning the text; it 
is that of the Prayer Book Collection, but differs from that of Bapt. and 
Ref. Ch., in which alone, of other collections, the hymn is to be found. 

John Leland was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, in 1754. He became 
a Baptist preacher. He was a man of great eccentricity of character. 
He published several works. He died in 1841. 



335. "Abide with me y. fast falls the eventide? 

Henry Francis Lyte (1847). " It is related that in the Autumn of 1847, 
just before taking his final journey to Nice, he made an effort to preach 
to his congregation once more, that he addressed to them his solemn af- 
fecting parting words, and administered to them the Lord's Supper, and 
on retiring to rest presented to a dear relative this hymn with the music 
he had adapted to it." {Miller!) The original has eight verses, but those 
of the text are the verses generally adopted. The only alterations in the 
text are in verse 3, line 4, where the original has " 0" instead of " Lord," 
and in verse 5, line 4, "and" instead of the second "in." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum ; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Windle; 
Canterbury; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; 
Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



336. " Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear" 

John Keble (1827); the Evening Hymn in "The Christian Year." The 
original has fourteen verses. The present version consists of the six 
verses usually adopted. The changes in the text are in verse 2, line 2, 
which has in the original "wearied" instead of "weary," and in verse 5, 
line 4, " infant's " instead of " infant." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's ; Elliott ; Alford; Church; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal 
Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Ref. Ch. 



337. " The shadows of the evening hours!' 

Miss Adelaide Anne Proctor (i860); from her "Legends and Lyrics" 
Second Series. The text (from Rogers) is unaltered. 

Adelaide Anne Proctor was born in London, in 1825. Her father, 
Brian W. Proctor, is well known by his literary nom de guerre of Barry 
Cornwall. In 1853, Miss Proctor became a contributor to Dickens' 
"Household Words!' Her reputation as a poet was secured by the pub- 
lication of her first volume of "Legends and Lyrics'' in 1858. A second 
volume was added in i860. She also published other compositions in 
poetry and prose. She died in 1864. She was a member of the Roman 
Catholic Church. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. 



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338. " Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go." 

Frederick William Faber (1848). The fourth verse of the original is 
omitted. The text contains no material alterations. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum ; A. and M.; Peo- 
ple's; Afford; Chope; Hymnal Noted; Eickersteth; Hymnary. Also by 
Ref. Ch. 



339. " Inspirer and Hearer of prayer :" 

Augustus Montague Toplady; in the " Gospel Magazine" December. 
1774. The original consists of six eight-line verses, beginning " What 
thd my frail eyelids refused The lines altered in the text are as follows 
in the original: — 

Verse 1, line I, "Beneficent Hearer of prayer, 

" 2, Thou Feeder and Guardian of Thine." 
" 4, " I, sleeping and waking, resign." 

Verse 5, line 4, " Their gracious Creator and mine." 

Augustus M. Toplady was born at Farnham, Surrey, in 1740. He 
studied at Westminster School. In 1762, he was ordained in the Church 
of England, and soon after was instituted in the living of Blagdon, Som- 
ersetshire. He afterwards held the living of New Ottery, and in 1768, 
became Vicar of Broad Hembury, Devonshire, a position he held until 
his death in 1778. He was the author of a large number of hymns, which 
have been collected and published by Sedgwick. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Elliott ; 
Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



340. " Softly now the light of day." 

George Washington Doane (1824); in " Songs by the Way." The text 
is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. Also by Presb.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



341. " The day is past and over." 
(T^v y/uepav SieWuv.) 

S. Anatolius (d. 458); translated by John Mason Neale in his "Hymns 
of the Eastern Church" (1862). "This little hymn is a great favourite in 
the Greek Isles. It is, to the scattered hamlets of Chios and Mitylene, 



what Bishop Ken's Evening Hymn is to the villages of our own land." 
(Daniel?) Neale revised his translation in 1863. The text has no 
material alterations except in the last two lines of the fourth verse, which 
read in the original thus : — 

"He could not make their darkness light, 
Nor guard them thro 1 the hours of night? 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Sarum; A. and M.; 
People's; Chope; Morrell and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; 
Hymnary. 



342. " Through the day Thy love has spared us." 

Thomas Kelly (1806). . The text (from Palmer) is unaltered, except in 
verse 2, line 5, which has in the original " sad" instead of "short." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Islington; Marylebone; 
Windle ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by 
Cong. 



343. " Great God, to Thee my evening song." 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). Four verses of the original are here omitted. 
Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 3, line 4, "And fond of trifles, vainly rove." 
Verse 5, line 1, "Let this blest hope mine eyelids close." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



344. " God, that madest earth and heaven." 

The first verse is by Reginald Heber (1827) ; the second by Archbishop 
Whately. It has been thought that Whately's verse was suggested by 
the " Compline Antiphon " : — 

" Salva, nos, DOMINE, vigilantes, custodi nos dormientes, ut vigilemus 
in CHRISTO et requiescamus in pace." 

The text is unaltered. 

Richard Whately was born in London, in 1787. He was educated at 
Oriel College, Oxford, graduating B. A. in 1808, and M. A. in 18 12. He 
was Fellow of Oriel College, 1811; Bampton Lecturer, 1822; Rector of 
Halesworth, 1822; Principal of S. Alban Hall, Oxford, and D. D., 1825 ; 



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Professor of Political Economy, Oxford, 1830; Archbishop of Dublin, 
1 83 1 ; died in Dublin, 1863. His publications are very numerous. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; 
A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Marylebone; Windle; Canter- 
bury ; Chope ; Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also 
by Ref. Ch. 



345. " The sun is sinking fast" 

{Sol prceceps rapitur.) 

A modern Latin hymn, now lost. A reward was recently offered for 
its discovery, but in vain. Translated by Edward Caswall (1858) in his 
" Masque of Mary, etc." The following lines are the original of portions 
altered in the text : — 

Verse 2, line 2, "In death reclined 

" 3, Into His Father's hands." 

Verse 7, line 3, " Myself for ever His." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Barry; Singleton; A. and M.; 
People's ; Elliott ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; Bicker- 
steth; Hymnary. 



346. " The day of praise is done" 

John Ellerton (1871). "Some of his hymns appeared in 1863, in the 
'Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern' but I do not find this back of 
1871." {Bird) The text is altered in three lines of the last verse, which 
read as follows in the original : — 

Verse 6, line I, " Till dawns that day again, 
" 2, The day that knows no end, 
" 3, When songs of angels and of men." 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



347. " Now from the altar of our hearts " 

John Mason (1683) ; in " Songs of Praise." Four verses of the original 
are here omitted. Lines altered in the text are as follows in the orig- 
inal : — 

Verse I, line 2, " Let incense flames arise." 

Verse 2, line 4, " More fleet and free than they." 

Verse 3, line 1, " New time, new favour, and new joys." 



Annotations, 



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Throughout the hymn in the original the singular pronouns "/" and 
my" are used. 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Rogers. Also by Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



348. " Hail, gladdening Light, of His pure glory poured? 

Athenogenes; translated by John Keble, in "Lyra Apostolical The 
text (from A. and M.) is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



349. " The day is gently sinking to a close" 

Christopher Wordsworth (1864); in the Supplement to "The Holy 
Year" The text (from Hymnary) is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Hymnary. 



350. " Safely through another week" 

John Newton (1779). Hymnologists differ as to the text of this hymn. 
The Rev. F. M. Bird has indicated the following original lines of portions 
altered in the text : — 

Verse 1, line 4, " On the approaching Sabbath day" 

Verse 3, line 4, " Shine away our sin and shame ; 
" 5, From our worldly care set free." 

Verse 5, line 5, "Thus may all our Sabbaths prove? 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Windle. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



851. "Lord, when this holy morning broke? 
Anonymous. The editor is unable to trace this hymn. 

It cannot be found in any of the collections examined. 

352. " Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me? 

Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan (1839); composed for the use of her own 
little children, and entitled " An Evening Prayer? The text differs in 
verse 3, line 3, from that in Bickersteth, which reads : — 

" Take me, when I die, to heaven." 



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Mary L. Duncan was the daughter of the Rev. Robert Lundie, and 
was born at Kelso, in 1814. She was educated in London. In 1835, she 
contributed to '■'■Ellis' Missionary Annual." She was married in 1836 to 
the Rev. W. Wallace Duncan, minister of Cleish. After her marriage she 
continued to devote considerable time to literary labour, but died at an 
early age, in 1840. 

This hymn is adopted by Bickersteth. Also by Bapt. 



353. " The -winged herald of the day" 
{Ales diei nuncius.) 

Translated by John Mason Neale (185 1); in the "Hymnal Noted'' 
One verse of the translation is omitted. The last verse in the text is from 
another of Neale's translations, and is substituted for the one which the 
translator connected with the hymn. The lines of which the following 
are the original, are also altered : — 

Verse I, line 3, " And Christ the Lord our souls excites, 
" 4, And so to endless life invites." 

Verse 2, line 3, "And chaste and just and sober stand 
" 4, And watch ; My coming is at hand." 



This hymn is adopted by Hymnal Noted. 



354. " Dawn purples all the East with light." 
{Aurora jam spar git pohim) 

Translated by John Mason Neale (1851); in "Hymnal Noted." The 
lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

. Verse I, line I, "Dawn sprinkles all the East with light." 

" 3, " Morn's glittering rays their course begin." 

Verse 2, line I, "Each phantom of the night depart." 

Verse 3, line 4, "Who chant the song we sang below." 

The same change is made in the last verse as in the preceding hymn. 
This hymn is adopted by Hymnal Noted. 



355. " Come, Holy Ghost, with God the Son." 
{Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus.) 

The daily hymn for the third hour in the Roman and Sarum Breviaries, 
translated by John Mason Neale (1851); in the "Hymnal Noted." 
" Wackernagel ascribes this to S. Ambrose, who died A. D. 397. Daniel 



Annotations* j^y 

in his first volume calls it Ambrosian (a term applied to a mass of hymns 
resembling those of Ambrose in style and structure, though of later date) ; 
and in his fifth volume refers its first appearance to the seventh or eighth 
century. The earliest MS. of it is at Darmstadt, and of the eighth cen- 
tury. It has always been used at Terce (the third hour). The Doxology 
is a later addition." (Bird's " Songs of the Spirit" p. 198.) The text (from 
Hymnal Noted) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Church ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



356. " God of truth, Lord of might." 

{Rector fiotens, verax Deus) 

Translated by John Mason Neale (185 1); in the " Hymnal Noted." 
"The original is by Ambrose; vide ' Hymni et Collectae' (1585), Cardinal 
Thomasius and Daniel." {Miller?) The text (from Hymnal Noted) is 
altered in some lines, which are as follows in that Hymnal : — 

Verse I, line 2, "Who ord'rest time and change aright, 
" 3, And send' st the early morning ray, 
" 4, And light* st the glow of perfect day." 

Verse 2, line 3, "And while Thou keep'st the body whole." 
This hymn is adopted by Hymnal Noted. 

357. " God! creation 's secret force." 
{Rerum Deus tenax vigor?) 

Translated by John Mason Neale (185 1); in the "Hymnal Noted.'" 
The original is attributed to S. Ambrose, in the " Hymni et Collectae." 
The text (from Hymnal Noted) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum; A. and M.; Hymnal Noted. 

358. "As now the sun's declining rays'' 
{Labente jam solis rotd.) 

Translated from the Paris Breviary by John Chandler (1837); in his 
"Hymns of the Primitive Church." The text is Chandler's translation 
revised by the compilers of "Hymns Ancient and Modern." 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; 
Elliott; Church; Chope; Hymnal Noted; Hymnary. 



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359. " Before the ending of the day'' 

(Te, lucis ante terminum.) 

The Compline Hymn; translated from the Roman Breviary by John 
Mason Neale (1851); in the " Hymnal Noted." In that collection the 
second verse reads as follows : — 

" From all ill dreams defend our eyes, 
From nightly fears and fantasies ; 
Tread under foot our ghostly foe, 
That no pollution we may know." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; Chope ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



360. " Father of mercies ! in Thy word!' 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The original has twelve verses, of which the 
text contains the first, ninth, eleventh and twelfth verses unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Irish ; Alford ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; 
Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 



361. " The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord'' 

Isaac Watts (1719) ; Psalm xix. The text is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Barry; Elliott; Islington: 
Windle. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



362. " Word of God incarnate? 

William Walsham How (1867); in his "-Supplement to Psalms and 
Hymns'' The text (from Bickersteth) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Bickersteth; Hymnary. 



363. " God' s perfect law converts the soul' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xix. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Windle. 



Annotations* 139 

364. " Behold the morning sun" 

Isaac Watts (171 9); Psalm xix. The original has eight verses. The 
verses of the text are unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Elliott ; Islington ; Maryle- 
bone ; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



365. "A glory gilds the sacred page" 

William Cowper (1779); in the " Olney Hymns." The first verse of 
the original is here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

William Cowper was born at Berkhampstead, Herts, in 1731. He 
studied at Westminster School, and in 1754 was called to the bar. Not 
devoting himself with much interest to his profession, his influential 
friends procured for him various clerkships ; but these he was obliged to 
relinquish through excessive nervous weakness. He was induced to write 
verses as a relief to his habitual melancholy. In 1767, he went to reside 
at Olney, on the invitation of the Rev. John Newton, then Curate there. 
It was during his life here that with Newton he composed the " Ohtey 
Hymns" though from an attack of insanity he contributed less than had 
been expected of him. In this collection sixty-eight hymns are by Cow- 
per, and two hundred and eighty by Newton. His health for ten years — 
1770 to 1780 — was very poor, and it was not until 1780, when he was 
nearly fifty years of age, that he began to write his poems. From that 
time until his death in 1800, he published many works which have given 
him a high place among British poets. His burial place is in S. Nicholas' 
Church, East Dereham. 

This hymn is adopted by Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



366. " Thy word is to my feet a lamp! 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxix. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. 



367. " There is a dooh, who runs may read" 

John Keble (18 19); in "The Christian Year" (1827); under the title 
" Septuagesima Sunday \" The original has twelve verses, of which six 
are here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Sarum ; Single- 
ton; A. and M.; Elliott; Marylebone; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; 
Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb. 



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Annotations* 



368. " Instruct me in Thy statutes, Lord.' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxix. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. 



369. "Salvation, the joyful sound /" 

Isaac "Watts (1709). The Doxology "Glory, honour, praise and power, 
etc." added to each verse, is not by Watts, but is a " simple translation of 
a prose chorus of S. Theodulph (see preface to ' Dies Irae* by Dr. Irons)." 
Otherwise the text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth; 
Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



370. " Saviour, source of every blessing" 

Rewritten in the Prayer Book Collection (1826), from a hymn by 
Robert Robinson (d. 1790). The authorship of this hymn, or rather the 
one ascribed to Robinson, has been the subject of much controversy; but 
the strongest evidence seems to give it to Robinson. For a full discussion 
of the question the reader is referred to Miller's " Singers and Songs of 
the Church" p. 267, and Rogers' "Lyra Britannica" p. 671. The 
following is the original version : — 



Come, Thou fount of every blessing, 
Tune mine heart to sing Thy grace 

Streams of mercy, never ceasing, 
Call for songs of loudest praise. 

Teach me some melodious sonnet, 
Sung by flaming tongues above ; 

Praise the mount ; I'm fix'd upon it ! 
Mount of God's unchanging love. 

Here I raise my Ebenezer ; 

Hither, by Thine help, I'm come ; 
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, 

Safely to arrive at home. 



Jesus sought me when a stranger 
Wandering from the fold of God ; 

He, to rescue me from danger, 
Interposed with precious blood. 

Oh, to grace how great a debtor, 
Daily, I'm constrain'd to be ! 

Let that grace now, like a fetter, 
Bind my wandering heart to Thee. 

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it ; 

Prone to leave the God I love ; 
Here's mine heart — oh, take and seal it ! 

Seal it from Thy courts above. 



Robert Robinson was born at Swaffham, Norfolk, in 1735. In 1749, 
he was apprenticed to a hairdresser, in Crutched Friars, London. Hear- 
ing a discourse preached by Whitefield on "The Wrath to Come," in 
1752, he was deeply impressed, and after a period of much disquietude, 
he gave himself to a religious life. His own peculiar account of this 
change of life is as follows: — "Robertus Michaelis Mariaeque Robinson 
filius. Natus Swaffhami, comitatu Norfolciae, Saturni die Sept. 27, 1735. 
Renatus Sabbati die, Maii 24, 1752, per predicationem potentem Georgii 



Annotations* I4I 

Whitefield. Et gustatis doloribus renovationis duos annos mensesque 
septem, absolutionem plenam gratuitamque, per sanguinem pretiosum 
Jesu Christi, inveni (Tuesday, December 10, 1755), cui sit honor et gloria 
in secula seculorum. Amen." He soon after began to preach, and minis- 
tered for some time in connection with the Calvinistic Methodists. He 
subsequently joined the Independents, but after a short period preferred 
the Baptist connection. In 1761, he became pastor of a Baptist congre- 
gation at Cambridge. About the year 1780, he began to incline towards 
Unitarianism, and at length his people deemed it essential to procure his 
resignation. While arrangements for this purpose were in progress he 
died suddenly at Bingham, in June, 1790. He wrote and published a 
good many works of ability. 

This hymn — in its original or rewritten form — is adopted by Pr. Bk. ; 
Kemble; Barry; Mercer; Church; Elliott; Windle; Islington; Irish. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



371. " All glorious God, what hymns of praise" 

Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). This is from the author's hymn No. 298 ; 
but lines 3 and 4, of verse 1, and 1 and 2, of verse 3, do not appear to be 
his. Xines altered in the text are in the original as follows : — 

Verse I, line 3, "What flaming love and zeal is due." 

Verse 3, line 3, " Lo what triumphant grace is shown." 

Verse 4, line I, " Far, far, beyond these mortal shores, 
" 2, A bright inheritance is ours." 



This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



372. " To our Redeemer's glorious Name." 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The third verse of the original is here 
omitted. Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 3, line I, " Jesus Who left His throne on high." 
" 3, " And came on earth to bleed and die." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



373. " Sing, my soul, His wondrous love!' 

The editor is unable to trace this hymn further than the Prayer Book 
Collection (1826), by which alone, of the Hymnals examined, it is 
adopted. 



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&ttuotation& 



374. " could I speak the matchless worth.' 



Samuel Medley (d. 1799). The original has eight verses, of which the 
text is the second, sixth and eighth. The only lines altered in the text 
are in the original as follows : — 

Verse 3, line 1, " Weil, the delightful day will come 

" 2, When He, dear Lord ! will bring me home." 

Samuel Medley was born at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1738. He was 
apprenticed at mercantile business in London, but not liking this employ- 
ment, he entered the navy as midshipman. In his early life he was very 
irreligious, but being invalided for several months by a wound received in 
action, he was led to reflection and a change of life. Soon after he entered 
the Baptist ministry, and passed the remainder of his life in ministerial 
work at Watford, Herts, and Liverpool. He died in 1799. He was the 
author of a large number of hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt; Ref. 
Ch. 



375. "Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan." 

Walter Shirley (d. 1786); in "Lady Huntingdon's Collection." The first 
and fourth verses of the original are here omitted. The two verses re- 
tained are, in the original, as follows : — 

Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan, Come, freely come, by sin opprest, 
Hath taught these rocks the note of woe ; Unburthen here thy weighty load ; 

Cease thy complaint, suppress thy groan, Here find thy refuge and thy rest, 
And let thy tears forget to flow : Safe on the bosom of thy God ; 

Behold, the precious balm is found, Thy God's thy Saviour, glorious word ; 

Which tulls thy pain, which heals thy Which sheathes tW avenger's glittering 
wound. sword. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Elliott. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt. 



376. " Grace ! 'tis a charming sound." 

Philip Doddridge (d. 175 1). "This hymn resembles, and may have 
been taken from, one by the Moravian hymn-writer, Esther Griinbeck, 
who was born at Gotha in 1 71 7, and died in 1796. Her hymn is No. 327 
of the ' Hymn Book of the United Brethren,' and begins: ' Grace ! grace ! 
oh that's a joyful sound.'" {Miller?) The text (from Rogers) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Barry; Irish; Islington; 
Windle ; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



Stnuotations. 



377. "He's blest, whose sins have pardon gain' d.' 



143 



Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxii. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. 



378. " All ye who seek for sure relief? 

{Quicumque certum quaeritis.) 

From the Roman Breviary; translated by Edward Caswall (1848) in 
" Lyra Catholica" This hymn is not in most editions of the Roman 
Breviary, but it may be found in the " Mechlin Edition/' for the use of 
the Kingdom of Spain, and the dioceses of Liege and Namur. Lines 
altered in the text are, in the original translation, as follows : — 

Verse I, line 1, "All ye who seek a certain cure". 
Verse 4, line 1, " Heart, thou joy of saints on high." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; People's; Chope; Hymal Noted; 
Hymnary. 



379. "Ah, not like erring man is God" 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826); in the Prayer Book Collection 
(No. 14) from which the text is taken, the first two verses being here 
omitted. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb. 



380. " When, wounded sore, the stricken soul" 

Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander (1858); in her "Hymns Descriptive and 
Devotional." The only lines altered in the text are as follows in the 
original : — 

Verse 1, line 4, "Can salve the sinner's wound." 
Verse 2, line I, "When sorrow swells the laden breast." 

This hymn is adopted by Barry; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; 
Canterbury; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. 



144 Annotations, 



381. " Come, ye sinners, poor and needy? 

Joseph Hart (1759); in "Hymns Composed on Various Subjects? The 
original, as given by Rogers, has seven verses, of which the third is here 
omitted. Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line I, "Come ye sinners, poor and wretched? 
" 4, " Full of pity, joined with power? 

Verse 3, line 2, " Bruised and broken by the fall." 

Verse 4, line 1, " View Him growling in the garden, 
" 2, Lo, your Maker prostrate lies." 

Verse 5, line 1, "Lo, the incarnate God ascends." 

Verse 6, line 3, " While the blissful seats of heaven." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Islington; Windle; Canterbury; 
Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



382. "Ah, how shall fallen man? 

" Probably by Henry Ustick Onderdonk ; rewritten in the Prayer Book 
Collection (1826); from the '■Scotch Paraphrase' No. 7 (Cameron), which 
again is rewritten from Watts, Book I., Hymn 86." {Bird.) 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 



383. " There is a fountain fill 'd with blood? 

William Cowper (1779). The original has seven verses, the last two of 
which are here omitted. Lines 3 and 4, of verse 2, were originally written 
as follows : — 

"And there have I, as vile as he, 
Washed all my sins away." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; 
Singleton ; People's ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Chope ; 
Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



384. " The voice of free grace? 

Ascribed to one Thursby, or Thornby, of whom, as well as of the text 
of the hymn, the editor is unable to give any information. 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



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385. "Now to the Lamb that once was slain." 



145 



Isaac Watts (1709); in his "Hymns" The text is the sixth and seventh 
verses of the author's hymn beginning, "Behold the glories of the Lamb," 
which may be found in No. 123, of this collection. The only alteration 
in the text of these verses is in verse 1, line 4, where the original has 
"Thy" instead of "his." 

This hymn — as in No. 123 — is adopted by the collections there referred 
to, but in this shorter form by none of those examined. 



386. " Thou that hear'st when sinners cry." 

Isaac Watts (1719); Psalm li., 3d Part. The fourth, sixth and seventh 
verses of the original are -here omitted. The text of the verses retained 
is without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Elliott; Church; Islington. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



387. " Stay, Thou long-suffering Spirit, stay." 

Charles Wesley (1749). The second, fifth and sixth verses of the 
original are here omitted. Portions altered in the text are as follows in 
the original : — 

Verse I, line 1, "Stay, Thou insulted Spirit, stay." 

Verse 2, line 2, " Of all who e'er Thy grace received." 

Verse 3, line 1, "Yet O the chief of sinners spare." 

Verse 4, line 1, "From now my weary soul release, 

" 2, Upraise me with Thy gracious hand; 

" 3, And guide into Thy perfect peace." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Mercer; Elliott. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



388. " Jesus, Saviour of the lost." 

Edward Henry Bickersteth (1858). The text is from the author's 
"Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer" (1870), unaltered. 

Edward Henry Bickersteth was born in London, in 1825. His father, 
the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, is well known for his theological and 
devotional writings. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 



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where he graduated in 1847. After his ordination, he became Curate of 
Barmingham, Norfolk, and subsequently ministered at Tunbridge Wells. 
In 1852, he became Rector of Hinton Martell, Dorset. In 1855, he 
obtained the incumbency of Christ Church, Hampstead, his present 
charge. Mr. Bickersteth is the author of several religious works in prose 
and poetry. 

This hymn is adopted by Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also by Ref. Gh. 



389. " that my load of sin were gone" 

Charles Wesley (1742). Except in the omission of several verses, the 
text has no material variation from the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch 



390. " let triumphant faith dispel." 

From the " Scotch Paraphrase" No. 48 (Michael Bruce) ; rewritten in 
the Prayer Book Collection (1826). 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



391 . " Rock of Ages, cleft for me" 

Augustus Montague Toplady (1776) ; in the "Gospel Magazine" (March 
1776), with the title "A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer 
in the World!' " The hymn is given at the end of an article in prose, 
which is a spiritual improvement of a preceding article, signed 'J. F./ 
and entitled ' Questions and Answers Relative to the National Debt.' By 
numerical calculations the number of a man's sins is shown to be very- 
great, and that of all the redeemed therefore overwhelming, and hence the 
unspeakable value of Christ's atonement — and then this hymn is intro- 
duced. It has been the favourite hymn of many Christians ; has given 
great comfort in sickness (e. g. of Prince Albert in his dying hour). Dr. 
Pomeroy relates that a few years ago, when in an Armenian Church at 
Constantinople, he observed many weeping as they sang, and found on 
enquiry that they were singing a translation of this affecting hymn." 
{Miller!) Dr. Pusey calls this " the most deservedly popular hymn." 

The only alteration in the text is in verse 4, lines 2 and 3, which read 
in the original, — 

" Whilst I draw this fleeting breath, 
When my eyestrings break in death." 

Of this, Dr. Schaff says: "Better 'When my eyelids close in death.' 
This change, though not strictly correct, is one of the very rare instances 



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in which compilers of hymn books have improved upon the author. Gen- 
erally, the endless alterations of English and German hymns are changes 
for the worse. Even this invaluable hymn has been subjected to ruthless 
mutilations." (" Christ in Song," p. 462.) The alterations in this hymn, 
as it is given in some collections, reduce it to three verses. Of twenty-five 
church collections examined by the editor, twenty-four adopt this hymn ; 
six of these, in the mutilated form, and eighteen, in the form here given, 
with occasional immaterial differences. So also three of the five collec- 
tions of other religious bodies adopt it practically in the original form of 
four verses. 

The following is the original version of the hymn ; with a Latin trans- 
lation by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, published by Quaritch 
(1861):— 

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Jesus, pro me perforatus, 

Let me hide myself in Thee ; Condar intra Tuum Latus ; 

Let the water and the blood, Tu per Lympham profluentem, 

From Thy riven side which flow'd, Tu per Sanguinem tepentem, 

Be of sin the double cure, In peccata mi redunda, 

Cleanse me from its guilt and power. Tolle culpam, sordes munda ! 

2 Not the labours of my hands 2*Nil in manu mecum fero, 
Can fulfil Thy law's demands ; Sed me versus Crucem gero : 
Could my zeal no respite know, Vestimenta nudus oro, 
Could my tears for ever flow, Opem debilis imploro, 

All for sin could not atone, Fontem Christi quaero immundus, 

Thou must save, and Thou alone. Nisi laves, moribundus. 

3 Nothing in my hand I bring ; 3*Coram Te nee Justus forem, 
Simply to Thy cross I cling ; Quamvis tota vi laborem, 
Naked, come to Thee for dress ; Nee si fide nunquam cesso, 
Helpless, look to Thee for grace : v Fletu stillans indefesso ; 
Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Tibi soli tantum munus — 
Wash me, Saviour, or I die. Salva me, Salvator Unus ! 

4 Whilst I draw this fleeting breath, 4 Dum hos artus vita regit, 
When my eyestrings break in death, Quando nox sepulcro tegit ; 
When I soar through tracts unknown, Mortuos quum stare jubes, 
See Thee on Thy judgment throne, Sedens Judex inter nubes ; — 
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Jesus, pro me perforatus, 
Let me hide myself in Thee. Condar intra Tuum Latus ! 

* It will be seen that these verses are transposed by the translator. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum ; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell 
and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



"Just as I am, — without one plea" 

Miss Charlotte Elliott (1836). The text (from Rogers) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; 
Singleton; Elliott; Alford; Windle; Canterbury; Morrell and How; 
Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



148 &nnotutions. 



393. "Jesu, Lover of my soul." 



Charles Wesley (1740). The third and fourth verses of the original are 
here omitted. The twenty-five collections of the church, and five of other 
religious bodies, examined, adopt this hymn. Of these, one reads in the 
first line "Saviour" instead of "Lover;" six read "Refuge" instead of 
"Lover," and twenty read " Lover," as it was written. 



394. "Jesus, my Saviour ! look on me." 

The " Sarum Hy??mal" (from which the text is taken) ascribes this 
hymn to the Rev. Dr. J. R. Macduff, a clergyman of the Church of Scot- 
land, in Glasgow. His writings, of a practical and spiritual character, 
have had a large sale. 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum. 



395. "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds? 

John Newton (1779). It has been thought that this hymn was suggested 
by Bernard's " Jesu dulcis memoria" The fourth verse of the original is 
here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted byKemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; 
Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



396. "For ever here my rest shall be" 

Charles Wesley (1740); the last four verses of a hymn beginning, 
" Jesus, Thou art my Righteousness' 1 The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; Singleton; Windle; Canterbury, 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth. 



397. "A mountain fastness is our God" 
(Ein' feste Burg.) 

Martin Luther (1529); a rendering of Psalm xlvi.; translated by Wil- 
liam Rollinson Whittingham, in "Hymns for Church and Home" except 
the last verse, the author of which is unknown to the editor. 

" This hymn was written in the year when the Evangelical princes 
delivered that protest at the Diet of Spires from which 'Protestants' take 
their name. Luther used often to sing it in 1530, while the Diet of 



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Augsburg was sitting. It soon became a favourite psalm with the people. 
It was one of the watchwords of the Reformation, cheering armies to con- 
flict, and sustaining believers in the hour of fiery trial. • The first line of 
this psalm is inscribed on Luther's tomb, at Wittenberg. It has been 
called the national hymn of Protestant Germany." {Miller.) 

Martin Luther was born at Eisleben, Germany, in 1483. His parents 
were poor, but through the assistance of friends he received a good 
education. At the age of eighteen, he went to the University of Erfurth, 
where he made great attainments, and was much admired for his genius. 
At the age of twenty-two, he entered the monastery of S. Augustine, at 
Erfurth. In 1508, an the invitation of the Elector of Saxony, he under- 
took the office of Professor of Philosophy in Wittenberg University; 
soon after, he became Bachelor of Divinity, and was called to expound 
the Scriptures daily to the members of the University. About this time 
he took the journey to Rome, which, by what he saw, made him an enemy 
to the Papacy. His career from that time, in the work of the Reforma- 
tion, is well known. He died in 1546. Luther was the author of many 
exegetical and controversial works. He was very fond of music and 
poetry. Music he ranked next in place to theology. He made metrical 
versions of many of the Psalms, and also translated some of the best 
Latin hymns. 

William Rollinson Whittingham was born in New York in 1805 ; 
graduated at the General Theological Seminary, in 1825 ; was ordained in 
1827; became Rector of S. Luke's Church, New York, in 1831; Profes- 
sor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Seminary, in 1835 ; was con- 
secrated Bishop of Maryland in 1840, and still presides over that diocese. 
He has edited several periodicals and some standard works. 

This translation is not adopted in any of the collections examined. 



398. " How Jinn a foundation, ye saints of the Lord" 

George Keith (?) (1787). The authorship of this hymn is uncertain. It 
originally appeared in " Rippo?i!s Selection" (1787) bearing the signature 

"K ," several other hymns in the selection being similarly marked. 

In subsequent collections the name "Kirkham" was attached to it. But 
in a collection of hymns edited by Thomas Kirkham, this does not appear. 
Belcher attributes it to a "John Kirkham." Fletcher, in his Collection 
(1822) ascribes it to Keen. Spurgeon, in his recent hymn-book, assigns 
it to "Kirkham or Kennedy." Sedgwick assigns it to "Keith," who 
was a publisher, a son-in-law of Dr. Gill, and the composer of several 
hymns. The second and sixth verses of the original are here omitted. 

Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 5, line I, " The soul that on Jesus hath lean'd for repose." 

" 3, " That soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.j Ref. Ch. 



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399. "Approach, my soul, the mercy seat. 



John Newton (1779). The sixth verse of the original is here omitted. 
The text (from Palmer) is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; Singleton; 
Islington; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Bapt.; Ref. 
Ch. 

400. "Lord, teach us how to pray aright." 

James Montgomery (1819); in " Cotterill 's Selection" The text con- 
tains the first, fifth, seventh and eighth verses of the original eight verses 
as given by Rogers, without alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Islington ; 
Windle; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by Ref. Ch. 



401. " Come, my soul, thy suit prepare." 

John Newton (1779). The fifth verse of the original is here omitted. 
The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Elliott ; Maryle- 
bone; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



402. " Shepherd divine, our wants relieve." 

Charles Wesley (1749). The sixth verse of the original is here omitted. 
Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 1, line 4, " The power to watch and pray.'' 

Verse 3, line I, " The Spirit 0/ interceding grace 
" 2, Give us in faith to claim." 

Verse 4, line 1, " Till Thou the perfect love impart." 

Verse 5, line 4, " And make me all like Thee." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M.; People's. Also by Meth. 



403. "From every stormy wind that blows" 

Hugh Stowell (1832); in "Pleasures of Religion, with other Poems," 
under the title "Peace at the Mercy-seat." The fourth and sixth verses 
of the original, as given by Rogers, are here omitted. In verse 3, line 4, 
the original has "the" instead of " one." Otherwise the text is unaltered. 



Hugh Stowell was born in 1799, at Douglas, Isle of Man. In 1818, 
he entered S. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, where he graduated in 1822. In 
1823, he took Orders. For two years he was Curate of Shapscombe, 
Gloucestershire, and of Trinity Church, Huddersfield. He then accepted 
the charge of S. Stephen's Church, Salford. In 1845, ne was made 
honorary Canon of Chester, and subsequently Rural Dean of Salford. 
He died in 1865. Mr. Stowell contributed to some serials, and published 
several volumes of his writings. In 1831, he edited "A Collection of 
Psalms and Hymns suited to the Services of the Church of England" 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Barry; Windle; Bickersteth; 
Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



404. " Prayer is the soul's sincere desire." 

% 
James Montgomery (18 19) ; in " Cotterill's Selection," where it appeared 
in four eight-line verses. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Barry; Elliott; Afford; Windle; 
Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



405. " All people that on earth do dwell" 

Psalm c. This is, perhaps, the most generally adopted of the metrical 
Psalms. The following extract from Miller's " Singers and Songs of the 
Church" on the question of the authorship of this version is of interest 
and value. "It has been customary to attribute this psalm to Hopkins, 
but not on good grounds. It is superior to his productions. Some have 
supposed that this psalm was by William Kethe, who was an exile with 
Knox, at Geneva, in 1555. He was Chaplain to the English forces in Havre, 
in 1563, and also had the parish of Okeford, in Dorset. The old Psalter, of 
which a copy exists in the Library of S. Paul's Cathedral, London, had 
twenty- five psalms added to it in 1561, all of which, except the above 
100th, had Kethe' s initials, 'W. K.' That psalm had the initials 'T. S.,' 
for Thomas Sternhold ; but as those initials were not afterwards repeated, 
it is supposed that that psalm was also by William Kethe ; and it is said 
that in another edition of the same year, ' W. K.' was put to this render- 
ing, and in the 'Scottish Psalter' of 1564, this psalm has the initials 
'W. K.' Internal evidence is also thought to support this view. In Dr. 
Williams's Library, there is a sermon, printed in black letter, preached at 
Blandford, Dorset, January 17, 1571, at the session held there, 'By Wil- 
liam Kethe, minister and preacher of God's Word.' 

" 'The whole Booke of Psalmes collected into Englyshe Meter, by 
Thomas Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and Others' (1564), of which there is a 
copy m the British Museum, contains sixty- two psalms by Hopkins ; but 
the psalm given as the 100th is not that given as his in the above-named 
collections, but an inferior production. In a later Psalter (1606), which 



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gives the initials of the writers to the psalms, there are two renderings of 
the psalm, and each without initials. The latter of these is the rendering 
in the collections. In this Psalter, 'J. H.' is put to Hopkins's psalms, 
and 'W. K.' to Kethe's; and as there is no name to this rendering, we 
conclude that the author cannot be ascertained. Perhaps we may venture 
to say that the rendering is not Hopkins's, but may be Kethe's." 

Few of the incidents in the life of John Hopkins are on record. He 
graduated B. A. at Oxford, in 1544, and is said to have been afterwards a 
clergyman in Suffolk. He was a coadjutor of Sternhold in the produc- 
tion of the first metrical version of Psalms attached to the Book of 
Common Prayer. It appeared in 1562. He was also editor of the 
Psalms in 15 5 1. As a poet, he is thought to be somewhat superior to 
Sternhold. Bayle says that he was " Britannicorum poetarum sui temporis 
non infimus." 

Thomas Sternhold was Groom 'of the Robes to Henry VIII. and 
Edward VI. WitB Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the 
Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one ; Hopkins and others 
composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms 
were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The 
work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late 
Groome of the King's Majestyes Robes, did in his Lyfetime drazve into 
Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Mont- 
gomery says : " The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been 
claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance 
which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his " Athenae Oxonienses" 
(1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's 
psalms : " Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he 
became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the 
Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's 
psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that 
the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets ; but they did not, 
some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, 
and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were 
thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and 
Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than 
their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." 

Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the 
strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into 
England — a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for 
its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the 
"Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. 
Christopher Tye. 

This version is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. andM.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; 
Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; 
Bickersteth; Hymnary; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 






Annotations* ^3 

406. ' ' praise ye the Lord." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxlix. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Sarum ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Windle ; Canter- 
bury; Morrell and How. Also by Presb.; Bapt 



407. "For Thee, God, our constant praise" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxv. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; S. P. C. K.; Church. Also by Cong. 



408. " Magnify Jehovah? s Name." 

James Montgomery (1822); Psalm cvii.; in his " Songs of Zion." The 
text is altered in some lines, of which the following are the original : — 

Verse 1, line 1, "Thank and praise Jehovah's Name." 

Verse 2, line 1, " Let the ransomed thus rejoice." 

Verse 3, line 3, "Hither, thither while they roam." 

Verse 4, line 1, " Then unto the Lord they cry." 

Verse 5, line 1, "To a pleasant land He brings." 

" 3, "Where from flowery^ hills, the springs." 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



409. "Before Jehovah's awful throne." 

Isaac Watts ( 1 719); Psalm c. Watts' version was altered by Charles 
Wesley (1741). As rendered by Watts there are six verses. Wesley's 
revision omitted Watts' first and fourth verses, and varied the second, 
(the first in the text,) which in the original reads : — 

" Nations, attend before His throne, 
With solemn fear, with sacred joy." 

In verse 5, line 4, the original has "shall" instead of "must." 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; Elliott; Alford; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Can- 
terbury; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



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410. " Bless God, my soul; Thou, Lord, alone.' 



Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm civ. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



411. " Ye boundless realms of joy." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxlviii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Sarum ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; 
Windle ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth. Also by Bapt. 



412. " praise the Lord in that blest place!' 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cl. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Windle. 



413. " bless the Lord, my soul." 

Thomas Cotterill or anonymous (1819); a rendering of Psalm ciii., in 
" Cotteriirs Selection." " This fine version was admitted into James Mont- 
gomery's 'Christian Psalmist' (1825), but has been generally unnoticed. 
Sedgwick once told me it was Cotterill's, and it may be, but I consider the 
point unproved." {Bird) The third verse of the original is here omitted. 
Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 4, "The Lord to thee is kind'' 

Verse 4, line 1, " He clothes thee with His love." 

Verse 5, "Then bless His holy Name, 

Whose grace hath made thee whole, 
Whose loving-kindness crowns thy days; 
bless the Lord, my soul." 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Barry; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Meth.; Bapt. 



414. " O God, my heart is fix' d, 'tis bent'' 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm lvii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Elliott ; 
Church ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Morrell and How. 



Annotations. 155 



415. " Through all the changing scenes of life." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxiv. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish; Sarum; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; Islington; Windle; 
Canterbury; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary. Also by Cong.; 
Bapt; Ref. Ch. 

416. " render thanks to God above." 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm cvi. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C.K.; Elliott; 
Church; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



417. " for a thousand tongues to sing." 

Charles Wesley (1739). Burgess says of this hymn that " it was written 
originally ' For the Anniversary of one's Conversion! " The original hymn, 
as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems" (1740), consisted of 
eighteen verses, beginning, " Glory to God, and praise, and love." In the 
seventeenth edition of " Hymns and Spiritual Songs" (1773), it was re- 
duced to eleven verses, beginning as in the present text. The text is the 
seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth verses of the original. The 
text is altered only in verse 3, line 2, which reads in the original "He" 
instead of "And." 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Irish ; Singleton ; 
Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



418. " Jehovah reigns, let all the earth? 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xcvii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. Also by Cong. 



419. "Begin, my soul, lh' exalted lay." 

John Ogilvie (1753); Psalm cxlviii. It was written at the age of 
eighteen, and first published in the " Scots' Magazine," February, 1753. 
The original has thirteen verses, of which the first, third, sixth (rewritten) 
and eleventh are retained in the text. The lines altered in the text are as 
follows in the original : — 

Verse 1, line 4, " Lo ! heaven and earth, and seas and skies." 
Verse 2, line 3, " His wondrous mercy sing." 



156 ^notations, 

John Ogilvie was born in 1733, and was minister of Midmar, Aberdeen- 
shire, Scotland, from 1759 until his death in 1814. He published some 
theological and philosophical treatises, and a number of poems. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also by Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



420. " P 11 praise my Maker with my breath." 

Isaac Watts (17 19); Psalm cxlvi. The text retains two of the six 
original verses. The only alteration in the text is in verse 2, where lines 
4 and 5 are transposed. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; Barry; Elliott; Windle;' Bicker- 
steth. Also by Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



421. " Adored for ever be the Lord!' 

Psalm xxviii. The first verse is from Tate and Brady (1796); the re- 
mainder is from some unknown source. 
It is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



422. " Songs of praise the angels sang." 

James Montgomery (18 19); in " CotteriWs Selection!' Lines altered in 
the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 3, line 3, " God will make new heavens, new earth.' 
Verse 4, line 1, " And can man alone be dumb." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; S.P.C.K.; Barry; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Marylebone ; Windle; 
Canterbury; Chope; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



423. " God, my King, Thy might confessing!' 

Richard Mant (1824); Psalm cxlv., in "The Book of Psalms, in an 
English metrical version, with notes critical and illustrative." The origi- 
nal has eleven eight-line verses, of which three are here retained. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



424. " All hail the power of Jesus' Name / " 

Edward Perronet (1780); in the " Gospel Magazine!' The original, as 
given by Rogers, has eight verses, the second and third of which are here 
omitted. Verses three and four in the text are transposed. Other changes 
will appear from the following original lines : — 

Verse I, line 4, "To crown Him Lord of all."' 

Verse 2, line 1, " Crown Him, ye martyrs of your God." 

Verse 3, line I, " Hail Him, ye heirs of David's line." 

Verse 6, " Let every tribe and every tongue 

That bound creation s call, 
Now shout in universal song, 
The crowned Lord of all." 

Edward Perronet was the son of the Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of 
Shoreham, Kent. For some time he was an intimate associate of the 
Wesleys, but subsequently he left them and was employed by Lady Hunt- 
ingdon, at Canterbury and Norwich. He afterwards became pastor of a 
dissenting congregation. He died in 1792. In 1785, he published a small 
volume, entitled " Occasional Verses, Moral and Social ; " a book now ex- 
tremely rare. At his death he is said to have left a large sum of money to 
Shrubsole, who was organist at Spafield's Chapel, London, and who had 
composed the tune " Miles Lane," for the above hymn. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Marylebone; Windle; 
Chope; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



425. " The strain upraise of joy and praise, Alleluia /*' 
(Canlemus cuncti melodum mine Alleluia /) 

Godescalcus (d. ab. 950); translated by John Mason Neale (185 1), in the 
" Hymnal Noted." The version in this collection is from " Hymns Ancient 
and Modem" (1861), and differs from that in the " Hymnal Noted" in the 
following lines : — 

Verse 4, line 1, "They through the fields of Paradise that roam, 

" 2, The blessed ones, repeat through that bright home 
Alleluia." 

Verse 5, line 1, " The planets glittering on their heavenly way." 



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Annotations. 



Verse 13, line i, "This is the strain, the eternal strain, the Lord of 
all things loves : Alleluia. 
" 2, This is the song, the heav'nly song, that Christ Him- 
self approves : Alleluia." 

Verse 16, line 2, " Alleluia ! Alleluia ! Alleluia ! Alleluia /" 

Very little is known of Godescalcus beyond the date of his death, about 
A. D. 950. 



426. " When all Thy mercies, my God:' 

Joseph Addison (17 12). The original has thirteen verses, of which six 
are here retained. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Singleton; Elliott; Islington; Marylebone ; Windle; Morrell 
and How; Bickersteth ; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



427. " With glory clad, with strength arrayed." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xciii. Portions of this version have 
been altered since its first appearance. 

It is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P.C. K.; Barry; Maryle- 
bone; Windle. Also by Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



42§. " Come, Thou Almighty King." 

Charles Wesley (?) (1757). The authorship of this hymn is uncertain. 
"The national British song of ' God save the King,' appeared first in the 
1 Gentlemen' s Magazine,' in 1745. About nineteen years afterwards ap- 
peared this hymn to the same tune, in a collection by the Rev. Spencer 
Madan, but there is no evidence that he was the author." {Deems.) " The 
tract (a half-penny leaflet) containing this hymn bears no author's name, 
nor date, I believe, and its origin is disputed. Sedgwick says it was by 
Charles Wesley. By internal evidence it may be his, but is not so mani- 
festly his as most of his verses are." {Bird.) The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



429. "Awake, my soul, to joy ful lays." 

Samuel Medley (1787) ; in " Rippon's Selection?' The original, as given 
by Rogers, has nine verses, three of which are here omitted. The follow- 
ing verses are the original of those retained in the text : — 



^ttttotatiorts* 



159 



Awake my soul in joyful lays, When earthly friends forsake me quite. 

And sing thy great Redeemer's praise ; And I have neither skill nor mighty 

He justly claims a song from me ; He's sure my helper to appear ; 

His loving-kindness is so free ! His loving-kindness is so near ! 

He saw me ruin'd in the fall, Often I feel my sinful heart 

Yet loved me, notwithstanding all ; Prone from my Jesus to depart ; 

He saved me from my lost estate ; A nd though I oft have Him forgot, 

His loving-kindness is so great ! His loving-kindness changes not. 

Tho' mighty hosts of cruel foes, So when I pass death's gloomy vale _ 

Where earth and hell my way oppose, A nd life and mortal powers shall fail ; 

He safely leads my soul along ; Oh may my last expiring breath 

His loving-kindness is so strong ! His loving-kindness sing in death ! 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Windle ; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



430. "Alleluia, song of sweetness'' 
{Alleluia, dulce carmen!) 

A Latin hymn of the 13th century (sometimes attributed to Adam of 
S. Victor, but probably without reason) ; translated by John Mason Neale 
(185 1), in the " Hymnal Noted" and rewritten by the compilers of 
"Hymns Ancient and Modern" (1861). 

This hymn is adopted by Sarum; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; 
Church; Canterbury; Chope; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary. 



43 1 . " Round the Lord in glory seated? 

Richard Mant (1837); in his "Ancient Hymns" The original consists 
of four eight-line verses, beginning, "Bright the -vision that delighted." 
The first half of the first and third verses in the original are here 
omitted. The text is unaltered except that in the first and last verses the 
word "its" is changed to "Thy." 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton; Alford; 
Church; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



432. " Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise." 

Translated by John Ellerton (1868) ; in the "Appendix to Hymns Ancient 
and Modern!' The text is from that collection, unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; Hymnary. 



160 Annotations. 



433. "Angel bands, in strains sweet sounding" 

John De Wolfe (d. ab. 1857); a rendering of Psalm cxlviii. 

The editor is indebted to the Rt. Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, D. D M 
Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, for the following account of the author 
of this hymn : " He was a graduate of Brown University (I think) in 
1804. He lived the life of a scholar, never having engaged in any busi- 
ness. In 1820, and so on for eight or ten years, he was Professor of 
Chemistry in Brown University, and afterwards delivered lectures on that 
science in one or two other institutions. He was a worshipper through 
all his manhood in the Episcopal Church, in Bristol, R. I., his native town, 
and was a vestryman of S. Michael's many years, but never (I think) a 
communicant. He died about fifteen years ago." 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



434. " Jesus, my strength, my hope" 

Charles Wesley (1742); the original having seven eight-line verses. In 
the text, the verses are considerably transposed, and some portions omit- 
ted. The words " I want" which frequently occur in the original, are 
here changed to " Give me." The version usually adopted is that which 
is in the Prayer Book Collection. The present arrangement of the hymn 
is by the Rev. E. J. Stearns, of S. Mary's Whitechapel, in the diocese of 
Easton. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Mercer; Irish; Bicker- 
steth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



435. " for a closer walk with God!' 

William Cowper (1779); * n " Olney Hymns." The original has six 
verses, of which the second and third are here omitted. The text is unal- 
tered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Canterbury; Bickersteth; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



436. " Who place on Sion's God their trust." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm cxxv. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K.; Islington. 






Annotations* 161 



437. " No change of time shall ever shock." 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm xviii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S.P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Singleton; Church; Windle. Also by Cong.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



438. " The Lord Himself, the mighty Lord." 

Tate and Brady (1703?); Psalm xxiii. The earlier version (1696) is 
somewhat different. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; S. P. C. K.; Barry; 
Church ; Windle. Also by Cong. 



439. "My soul, for help on God relyl 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm Ixii. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



440. "Father, whatever of earthly bliss." 

Miss Anne Steele (1760); the last three of a poem of ten verses, on 
"Desiring Resignation and Thankfulness," and beginning, "When I 
survey life's varied scene." Lines altered in the text are in the original 
(from Palmer) as follows : — 

Verse I, line 1, " And oh! whate'er of earthly bliss 
" 2, Thy sovereign hand denies." 

Verse 2,, line 1, " Give me a calm, a thankful heart." 

Verse 3, line 4, "And bless its happy end." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P.C.K.; 
Barry ; Irish ; Elliott ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also 
by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



441 . " While Thee I seek, protecting Poiver" 

Miss Helen Maria Williams (1786); in her "Miscellaneous Poems" 
irol. ii. The text is unaltered. 

Miss Williams was born in the north of England, in 1762. At the age 
of eighteen, she went to London, and soon after took position in the 
literary world, publishing several poems. Subsequently she resided in 
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162 Annotations, 

Paris, where she published works in prose and poetry. She died in 1827. 
The eminent French preacher, Athanase Coquerel (recently deceased) was 
her nephew, and received from her his early training. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; S. P. C. K.; Irish. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



442. '■'Although the vine its fruit deny." 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826); In the Prayer Book Collection. The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; People's. Also by Bapt. 



443. " In the hour of trial." 

James Montgomery (1853); in " Original Hymns for Public, Private, 
and Social Devotion." " Few hymns have gained a better deserved popu- 
larity than this." {Biggs.) In verse 2, line 1, the original reads: — 

" With its witching pleasures." 

The third and fourth verses were rewritten by Henry Wollaston Hutton, 
in " Hymns for the Church Services." The original of these verses (from 
Alford) reads thus : — 

"If with sore affliction " When in dust and ashes 

Thou in love chastise, To the grave I sink, 

Pour Thy benediction While heaven' 's glory flashes 

On the sacrifice ; O'er the shelving brink ; 

Then upon Thine altar On Thy truth relying, 

Freely offered up, Through that mortal strife, 



the flesh may falter, Lord receive me, dying, 

Faith shall drink the cup." To eternal life." 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Sarum; 
Singleton; Alford; Windle; Canterbury; Chope; Bickersteth. 



444. " Is there a lone and dreary hour." 

Mrs. Caroline Gilman. The text is unaltered. 

Caroline Howard was born in Boston, in 1794. She married the Rev. 
Samuel Gilman, a Unitarian minister, in 18 19. Soon after, they removed 
to Charleston, South Carolina. Mrs. Gilman has written considerable 
prose and some poetry. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 






Stitttotattoits* !63 

445. " ' Tis my happiness below!' 

William Cowper (1779). The original has three eight-line verses, eight 
lines of which are here omitted. Lines altered in the text are, in the 
original as given by Rogers, as follows : — 

Verse 3, line 2, " No correction by the way." 
Verse 4, line 3, " Trials bring me to His feet." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Elliott ; Islington ; Rogers. 



446. " God of my life, to Thee I call." 

William Cowper (1774); in " Olney Hymns!' It is entitled "Looking 
upwards in a Storm" and consists of six verses, the fifth of which is here 
omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
A. and M.; Elliott; Alford ; Church; Islington; Windle; Chope; Bicker- 
steth ; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 

447. "Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings! 1 

Robert Seagrave (1742); called by the' author "The Pilgrim's Song!' 
The original has four verses, of which the second and third are here 
omitted. The first verse in the text is unaltered. The second verse is in 
the original as follows : — 

"Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn, 

Press onward to the prize ; 
Soon our Saviour will return 

Triumphant in the skies. 
Yet a season, and you know 

Happy entrance will be given, 
All our sorrows left below, 

And earth exchanged for heaven!' 

Robert Seagrave was born at Twyford, Leicestershire, in 1693. He 
studied at Clare Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 171 8. In 1739, he was 
appointed Sunday Evening Lecturer at Lorimer's Hall, London. He 
afterwards preached in the Tabernacle, in connection with the Calvinistic 
Methodists. The date of his death is unknown. He published some 
treatises on doctrinal subjects, and on the duties of the ministry. In 1742, 
he published " Hymns for Christian Worship!' His hymns have been 
published by Sedgwick (i860). 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Islington; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.;. Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



164 gLnnotutionz* 

448. " Thy presence, Lord, hath me supplied" 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm lxxiii.; subsequently altered. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; EUiott. 



449. " Children of the heavenly King" 

John Cennick (1742). The original, as given by Palmer, has eight 
verses, of which the fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth are here omitted. The 
following is the original of the verses retained : — 

Children of the heavenly King, O ye banished seed, be glad! 

As ye journey, sweetly sing ; Christ our Advocate zVmade ; 

Sing your Saviour's worthy praise, Us to save, our flesh assumes ; 

Glorious in His works and ways ! Brother to our souls becomes. 

We are travelling home to God, Lord ! obediently we go, 

In the way the fathers trod ; Gladly leaving all below : 

They are happy now ; and we Only Thou our Leader be, 

Soon their happiness shall see. And we still will follow Thee ! 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Sarum; Singleton; People's; Elliott; Alford; Islington; Windle; 
Canterbury; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Palmer; Hymnary. Also 
by Presb.; Meth.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



450. "As, when the weary traveller gains!' 

John Newton (1779). The second and fifth verses of the original are 
here omitted. Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line 2, " The height of some o'erlooking hill, 
" 3, His heart revives, if cross the plains 
" 4, He eyes his home, though distant still." 

Verse 4, line I, "Jesus, on Thee our hope depends" 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Barry; Elliott; 
Islington; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



451. " As pants the hart for cooling streams? 

Tate and Brady (1696); Psalm xlii.; subsequently altered. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hail; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; 
Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Church; Islington; Windle; Morrell and 
How; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* !6^ 



452. " As panting in the sultry beamy 

John Bowdler (d. 1815); a paraphrase of Psalm xlii. The only lines 
altered in the text are, in the original as given by Rogers, as follows : — 

Verse 3, line 5, " What time the hallowed arch along 

" 6, Responsive swell 'd the solemn song." 

John Bowdler was born in London, in 1783. He was educated at 
Winchester College, and entered the legal profession. As a barrister, he 
gave unusual promise of eminence; but died in 18 15, at the age of 
thirty-two. His miscellaneous writings were published in 18 16, by his 
father, under the title of " Select Pieces of Prose and Verse'' 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Elliott; Rogers. 



453. " When I can read my title clear'' 

Isaac Watts (1709). The only alteration in the text is in verse 2, line 2, 
which has, in the original, "hellish" instead of "fiery." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; Mercer ; Irish ; Elliott ; 
Islington; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



454. "Lord, with glowing lie art I'd praise Thee." 

Francis Scott Key (1826); in the Prayer Book Collection. The text is 
unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. Also Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



455. " Jesu, the very thought of Thee." 
(Jesu, dulcis memorial) 

S. Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153); translated by Edward Caswall (1848) 
in " Lyra Catholica." " 'Jubilus rhyth??iicus de nomine Jesu' the sweetest 
and most evangelical (as the ' Dies Irae ' is the grandest, and the ' Stabat 
Mater' the most pathetic) hymn of the Middle Ages, though somewhat 
monotonous, and wanting in progress. The original has 192 or 200 lines. 
Trench, p. 246, gives a selection of fifteen quatrains, with the remark, 
'Where all was beautiful, the task of selection was a hard one.' The 
Roman Breviary has abridged and divided the hymn into three distinct 
hymns, viz.: 'Jesu, dulcis ?nemoria' ; '■Jesu, Rex admirabilis'; and 'Jesu, 
decus angelicum! " (Schaft's " Christ in Song," p. 405.) Lines altered in 
the text are, in Caswall's translation, as follows : — 



166 ^uitotattotis* 

Verse I, line 2, " With sweetness fills my breast." 

Verse 2, line 1, "Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame." 
" 3, "A sweeter sound than Thy blest Name,, 
" 4, Saviour of mankind." 

Verse 5, line 3, " Jesu ! be Thou our glory now." 

This hymn is adopted by. Mercer; Barry; Sarum; Singleton; A. and 
M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Church; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell 
and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



456. "Love divine, all love excelling? 

Charles Wesley (1746) ; from " Hymns for those that seek and those that 
have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ'' Lines altered in the text 
are, in the original as given by Rogers, as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 1, " Love Divine, all lobes excelling." 

Verse 2, line 4, "Let us find that second rest. 

" 5, Take away our power of sinning." 

Verse 3, line 2, " Let us all Thy life receive." 

Verse 4, line 2, " Pure and sinless let us be." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum ; Singleton ; People's ; Elliott ; Church ; Islington ; Windle ; Bick- 
ersteth; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



457. " I love my God, but with no love of mine" 

Madame Jeanne Bouvier de la Motte Guyon [d. 1717); the translation 
is anonymous. "I know not when or by whom this exquisite version 
was made. It is not in Cowper's volume of translations from Madame 
Guyon." (Bird.) 

Madame Guyon was born at Montargis, in 1648, and was educated at 
two of the convents of her native city. She contracted an early, and, as 
it proved, an uncongenial marriage ; was subjected to many trials and 
afflictions ; and was left a widow at the age of twenty-eight. Her trials 
had the effect of leading her to adopt the system of Quietism, to the 
advocacy of which she subsequently gave her life. For this purpose she 
travelled extensively, wrote devotional books, and, incurring the bitter 
hostility of the Romish Church, was imprisoned. After several imprison- 
ments, she was, in 1702, banished to Blois, near which place she passed 
the remainder of her life, dying in 1717. Her works were very numerous. 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



Stnitotations* jSy 

458. "My God, I love Thee— not because." 

(0 Deus, ego amo Te.) 

S. Francis Xavier (d. 1552); translated by Edward Caswall (1848) in 
"Lyra Catholica." " This hymn is like a countenance with a very decided 
expression, which, once seen, we do not easily forget." "It is hardly too 
much to say that this hymn of Xavier is the most profoundly and loftily 
spiritual of all lyrics ; for it is the essence of disinterestedness ; i. e., of 
Christianity." (Bird, in "Protestant Churchman" October 17, 1867.) 
Lines altered in the text are as follows in Caswall's translation : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " Nor yet because who love Thee not 
" 4, Must burn eternally '." 

Verse 3, line 3, "E'en death itself; and all for me." 

Verse 4, line 3, " Not for the sake of winning heaven." 

Verse 5, line 2, "Not seeking a reward." 

Verse 6, line I, "E'en so I love Thee, and will love!' 

The following is Xavier' s hymn : — 

O Deus, ego amo Te, Innumeros dolores, 

Nee amo Te, ut salves me, Sudores, et angores, 

Aut quia non amantes Te Ac mortem, et haec propter me, 

^Eterno punis igne. Ac pro me peccatore. 

Tu, Tu, mi Jesu, totum me Cur igitur non amem Te, 

Amplexus es in cruce ; O Jesu amantissime ! 

Tulisti clavos, lanceam, Non, ut in coelo salves me, 

Multamque ignominiam, Aut ne seternum damnes me ; 

Nee praemii ullius spe 
Sed sicut Tu amasti me ; 
Sic amo et amabo Te, 
Solum, quia Rex meus es. 

Francis Xavier was born of a noble family, in Spain, in 1506. At the 
age of seventeen he went to study at the University of Paris, where he 
came under the influence of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Order of 
the Jesuits. Xavier became one of the most zealous and conspicuous 
members of that Order when it was established in 1540. In 1541, he set 
out for missionary work in India. Burning with the love of Christ and 
the love of souls, the whole of his subsequent life was spent in the prose- 
cution of the most self-sacrificing work throughout the Oriental heathen 
lands. He died in 1552, while engaging in a mission to China. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M.; 
People's ; Church ; Hymnal Noted ; Hymnary. 



j68 Annotations* 



459. " Thou, Whom my soul admires above." 

Isaac Watts (1709). Some verses of the original are here omitted. 
This hymn is adopted by Windle. Also by Bapt. 



460. "My God, how wonderful Thou art" 

Frederick William Faber (1849); in his " Jesus and Mary" The text 
is from "Hymns Ancient and Modern" but it differs very slightly from the 
original. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; People's; Chope; 
Hymnal Noted; Hymnary. Also by Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



461. "Thee will I love, my Strength, my Tower" 

(Ich will Dich lieben, meine Starke.) 

Angelus Silesius (1657); translated by John Wesley (1739); in "Hymns 
and Sacred Poetns" A number of verses of the original translation are 
here omitted, and the last couplet in verse three is transposed to that place 
from one of the omitted verses. The lines altered in the text are, in the 
original as given in Sarum, as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 5, " Thee will I love, till the pure fire 

" 6, Fill my whole soul with chaste desire." 

Angelus Silesius, born in Silesia, in 1624, was the son of a Polish noble- 
man, and his true name was John Scheffler; but he adopted the name 
Angelus from a Spanish mystic of the 16th century — John ab Angelis — 
and added the name Silesius, because of his own country. He studied 
medicine, and obtained his degree of M. D. at Padua. While physician 
to the Duke Sylvius Nimrod — from 1649 to 1652 — he had contention with 
the Lutheran clergy, and in 1653 entered the Romish Church. Subse- 
quently he was physician to the Emperor Ferdinand III., but at length 
entered the priesthood and retired to the Jesuit monastery of S. Matthias, 
in Breslau, where he died in 1677. His hymns were mostly written before 
he joined the Romish Church, and were intended for private devotion ; 
some, however, have been very acceptable for public use. " Several of 
them are among the deepest and most tender in the German language, 
and breathe a glowing love to the Saviour." 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; People's ; 
Windle ; Bickersteth. Also by Cong. 



Annotations* !6o 

462. "Come, we that love the Lord." 

Isaac Watts (1709). The original has ten verses, of which the second, 
fourth and seventh are here omitted. Lines altered in the text are as fol- 
lows in the original : — 

Verse 2, line 3, " But favourites of the Heavenly King." 
Verse 3, line I, " This awful God is ours." 
Verse 5, line 1, "The men of grace have found." 

This hymn is adopted byPr. Bk.; Mercer; Barry; Irish; Elliott; Al- 
ford ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Bickersteth ; Palmer. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 



463. "Awake, and sing the song" 

William Hammond (1745); in "Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs 
and Discourses ." The original has fourteen verses, and is entitled " Before 
Singing of Hymns, by Way of Introduction" It may be found in the 
work referred to, p. 84. Although this hymn is assigned to Hammond, 
but two verses — the first and second — of the text are his — the third and 
fourth being by an unknown hand. The lines (of Hammond's) altered in 
the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 1, line 3, "Tune every heart and every tongue." 
Verse 2, line 4, "For all whose sins He bore." 

William Hammond studied at S. John's College, Cambridge, and grad- 
uated B. A. For a time he was a Churchman, then became a preacher of 
the early Calvinistic Methodists, and finally, with Cennick, joined the 
Moravians. He died in 1783. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; Elliott ; 
Islington; Windle; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



464. '' The King of love my Shepherd is" 

Henry Williams Baker (1868); in "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and 
Modern." Lines altered in the text are as follows in the original : — 

Verse 5, line 3, "And oh! what transport of delight 
" 4, From Thy pure Chalice floweth." 

This hymn is adopted by A. and M. 



170 



Annotations, 



465. " Quiet, Lord, my froward heart.' 



John Newton (1779). The fourth verse of the original is here omitted. 
The only alteration in the text is in verse I, line 4, where "little" is 
substituted for " weaned." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Barry; Elliott; Windle; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



466. "Lord, for ever at Thy side" 

James Montgomery (1819); Psalm cxxxi.; in " CotterilVs Selection" 
The following is the original, as given by Bird : — 

Lord, for ever at Thy side Quiet as a weaned child, 
May my place and portion be : Weaned from the mother's breast, 

Strip me of the robe of pride, By no subtlety beguiled, 

Clothe me with humility. On Thy faithfulness I rest. 

Meekly may my soul receive Saints rejoicing evermore 

All Thy Spirit hath reveal'd ; In the Lord Jehovah trust ; 

Thou hast spoken — I believe, Him in all His ways adore, 

Though the prophecy were sealed. Wise, and wonderful, and just. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. Also by Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



467. " for a heart to praise my God" 

Charles Wesley (1742). The original has eight verses, of which the 
fifth, sixth and seventh are here omitted. Lines altered in the text are as 
follows in the original : — 

Verse I, line 3, "A heart that always feels Thy blood 
" 4, So freely spilt for me." 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S.P.C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; 
Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



468. " There is a fold whence none can stray T 
John East (1836) ; from his "My Saviour ." The text is unaltered. 



This hymn is adopted by Ref. Ch. 



Annotations, jjj 



469. " God shall charge His angel legions? 

James Montgomery (1822); Psalm xci.; in "Songs of Zion? The 
original has five eight-line verses, beginning thus: "Call Jehovah thy 
salvation." The text is the fourth and fifth verses of the original, 
unaltered, except in the first line where " God" is substituted for "He." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



470. "My soul, be on thy guard? 
George Heath (1781). The editor is not sure about the text. 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

471. "Am la soldier of the Cross." 

Isaac Watts (1709-1721). In his "Hymns? Book I., Hymn 38 (1709), 
the text is very different from that in a later version in his " Sermons " 
(1721), where it is without material difference from that in this collection, 
some verses being omitted. 

This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

1 

472. "Breast the wave, Christian." 

Joseph Stammers (1830); contributed by the author to a small serial 
edited by the Rev. John Buckworth, late Vicar of Dewsbury, Lines 
altered in the text are in the original, as given by Rogers, as follosw : — 

Verse 2, line 7, "The love of eternity 

" 8, Flows on for ever? 

Verse 3, line 7, " Mount when thy work is done." 

Joseph Stammers was born at Buiy S. Edmunds, in 1801. He was 
educated for the legal profession, and practised for some years as a soli- 
citor in London. In 1833, he was called to the bar, and continues to 
practise as a barrister. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; People's; Elliott; Morrell and 
How ; Rogers. Also by Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



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473. " God of Bethel, by Whose hand." 

Philip Doddridge (1736-7). The following is the original version of 
this hymn : — 

O God of Jacob, by Whose hand If Thou wilt daily bread supply 

Thine Israel still is fed ; And raiment fit provide ; 

Who through this weary pilgrimage 

Hath all our fathers led ; If Thou wilt spread Thy wings around, 

Till these our wanderings cease, 
To Thee our humble vows we raise And at our Father's loved abode, 

To Thee address our prayer, Our souls arrive in peace ; 

And in Thy kind and faithful breast, 

Deposit all our care. To Thee, as to our covenant God 

We will ourselves resign ; 
If Thou, through each perplexing path, And count, that not our tenth alone 

Wilt be our constant guide ; But all we have is Thine. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; 
Alford; Islington; Windle; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



474. "A charge to keep I have." 

Charles Wesley (1762). In the original, line 1 of verse 2 reads thus: — 

"To serve the present age." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Mercer; Windle. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

475. " Supreme in wisdom as in power" 

Four of the verses are from a Scotch Paraphrase (22) of William 
Cameron (1781) somewhat altered; the third verse is from Watts, (Book 
I. Hymn 32, verse 4,) also slightly altered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. Also by Cong. 

476. "Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve." 

Philip Doddridge. The fourth and fifth verses of the original are here 
omitted. The fourth verse of the text is a repetition of the first, and is 
not so used in the original. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Barry; Elliott; 
Islington ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations. ^^ 

477. " Oft in danger, oft in woe' 

• 

Henry Kirke White (d. 1806) and Miss Fanny Fuller Maitland (1827). 
" The first ten lines of this hymn were left a fragment by Kirke White, 
written on the back of one of his mathematical papers. They came after 
his death into the hands of Dr. Collyer, who published them, with six (not 
very successful) lines of his own added, in his Hymn Book of 18 12, where 
the hymn is numbered 867. The task of finishing it was more happily 
accomplished by Miss Maitland, in the form in which it is here given, and 
which first appeared in a volume published by Hatchard in 1827, under the 
title of ' Hymns for Private Devotion, Selected and Original.' " The third 
verse of the original is here omitted. The only alterations in the text are 
in the first two verses, which read in the original, as given by Palmer, as 
follows : — 

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go ; 

Onward, Christians, onward go ; Join the war, and face the foe ; 

Fight the fight, and, worn with strife, Faint not ! much doth yet remain; 

Steep with tears the Bread of Life. Dreary is the long campaign. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish; Sarum ; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Mary- 
lebone ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; 
Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 



478. " Since Fve known a Saviour s Name." 

Charles Wesley (1746). The original has six verses, beginning, "Lo, I 
come with joy to do." Lines altered in the text are in the original, as 
given by Bird, as follows : — 

Verse I, line I, " Careful without care I am, 

" 2, Nor feel my happy toil, 

" 3, Kept in peace by Jesu's Name, 

" 4, Supported by His smile." 

" 7, "Every work I do below, 

" 8, I do it to the Lord" 

Verse 2, line 4, " Unhurt, unspotted, I" 

Verse 3, line 1, "O that all the art might know." 

" 8, " And see Thy glorious face? 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



74 Annotations* 



479. ' ' Heirs of unending life." 

Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1826). Benjamin Beddome (d. 1795). The 
first verse is by Onderdonk ; the second and third verses are by Beddome, 
though the first two lines of the second verse are altered, reading in the 
original thus : — 

"He by His spirit leads 

In paths before unknown." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall. Also by Ref. Ch. 



480. " Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness." 
(Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit.) 

Nicholas Louis, Count Zinzendorf (1739); translated by John Wesley 
(1740). The original has thirty verses. It was written on the island of 
S. Eustatius, on his return from visiting the missionaries in the West In- 
dies. The first verse, which belongs to a German hymn of P. Eber (1569), 
is very popular among German Christians, and is often quoted at death- 
beds. The text does not differ from the original as given by Schaff in 
" Christ in Song" p. 191. 

Nicholas Louis Zinzendorf was born at Dresden, in 1700. Of noble 
family he had the best advantages for study, which he well improved. He 
was fitted for the law, and in 1721 entered upon his duties as a judge. In 
1 73 1 he resigned his public duties in order to devote himself to Christian 
work, which had been growing upon him. In 1734, he became an assist- 
ant pastor at Herrnhut. He travelled extensively in behalf of Moravian 
missions, extending his journey to America, where he laboured more than 
a year in Pennsylvania. He died in 1760. His published works in prose 
and poetry were very numerous. He wrote in all about 2,000 hymns. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Elliott ; Windle ; 
Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



481. " Day of judgment, day of wonders !" 

John Newton (1779); probably suggested by the "Dies Irae." The 
fourth, fifth, and seventh verses of the original are here omitted. The 
text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Singleton ; 
Elliott; Church; Islington; Windle; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



gLnnotutions. 



482. "How will my heart endure. 



175 



Philip Doddridge (d. 1751). The first three verses of the original 
beginning, "And will the judge descend?" are here omitted. In line 
3 of verse 2, the original reads thus : " Hark ! from the Gospel's gentle 
voice." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; Elliott ; Canterbury. Also 
by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



483. " Day of 'wrath ! oh day of 'mourning :" 

(Dies irae, dies ilia) 

Thomas of Celano (13th cent.) ; translated by William Josiah Irons 
(1853). The text is from " Hymns Ancient and Modern" and is Irons' 
translation, with alterations in the first and last verses. Schaff says: 
" The last six lines (seven in the Latin) are in different metre, and no part 
of the original hymn, but added, in the Breviary, from older funeral 
services already in use." About one hundred translations of this hymn 
can, without difficulty, be collected. It is noticeable as one of the few 
Latin hymns in which the singular number is used throughout. The fol- 
lowing is from Schaff 's " Christ in Song" p. 372 : " This marvellous hymn 
is the acknowledged masterpiece of Latin poetry, and the most sublime 
of all uninspired hymns, often translated, reproduced, and imitated, but 
never equalled. It is one of those rare productions which can never die, 
but increase in value as the ages advance. It has commanded the ad- 
miration of secular poets, and men of letters, like Goethe, Walter Scott, 
and Macaulay, and has inspired some of the greatest musicians, from 
Palestrina down to Mozart. The secret of the irresistible power of the 
Dies Irae lies in the awful grandeur of the theme, the intense earnestness 
and pathos of the poet, the simple majesty and solemn music of its lan- 
guage, the stately metre, the triple rhyme, and the vowel assonances 
chosen in striking adaptation to the sense, — all combining to produce an 
overwhelming effect, as if we heard the final crash of the universe, the 
commotion of the opening graves, the trumpet of the archangel summon- 
ing the quick and the dead, and saw the 'King of tremendous majesty' 
seated on the throne of justice and mercy, and ready to dispense everlast- 
ing life or everlasting woe. Goethe describes its effect upon the guilty 
conscience, in the cathedral scene of Faust : — 

" ' Horror seizes thee ! 
The trump sounds ! 
The grave trembles ! 
And thy heart 

From the repose of its ashes, 
For fiery torment 
Brought to life again, 
Trembles up ! ' 



176 Annotations^ 

"The opening line, which is literally borrowed from the Vulgate version 
of Zeph. i., 15, (as the Stabat Mater likewise opens with a Scripture sen- 
tence, — John xix., 25,) strikes the key-note to the whole with a startling 
sound, and brings up at once the judgment-scene as an awful, impending 
reality. The feeling of terror occasioned by the contemplation of that 
event culminates in the cry of repentance, ver. 7 : ' Quid sum miser, tunc 
dicturus,' etc.; but from this the poet rises at once to the prayer of faith, 
and takes refuge from the wrath to come in the infinite mercy of Him 
Who suffered nameless pain for a guilty world, Who pardoned the sinful 
Magdalene, and saved the dying robber." 

Thomas was named "of Celano" from a small town near the Lake 
Fucino, and to distinguish him from another of the same name. The date 
of his birth is not ascertained, but it is known that he was one of the first 
scholars of his age, an attached friend of S. Francis of Assisi, and a dis- 
tinguished member of the Order of Minorites, founded in 1208. He held 
numerous important positions in the church. The date of his death is not 
known. 

William Josiah Irons, the son of a Calvinistic minister, was born in 
1812. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating B. A. in 1833, 
M. A. in 1835, and D. D. in 1854. He was ordained Deacon in 1835, 
Priest in 1836; was appointed Curate of S. Mary's, Newington, in 1835, 
incumbent of S. Peter's, Walworth, in 1837. In 1838, he became Vicar 
of Bark way, Herts, and Vicar of Brompton, London, in 1842. He has 
published some books, and many controversial pamphlets and sermons. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Sarum; Single- 
ton ; A. and M.; People's ; Alford ; Church ; Windle ; Canterbury ; Chope ; 
Morrell and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 
Also by Presb.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



484. " Great God, what do I see and hear /" 
(Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit.) 

An imitation from Bartholomew Ringwaldt (1585). The author of the 
first English verse is unknown; it was given in 1812 by W. B. Collyer 
with three additional verses of his own. In the last verse the first four 
lines are a repetition of the corresponding lines of the first verse ; the 
remaining lines are by Collyer. The following is the original version of 
the last three verses : — 

The dead in Christ are first to rise Far over space, to distant spheres, 
And greet th' Archangel 's warning The lightnings are prevailing ; 

To meet the Saviour in the skies Ttf ungodly rise, and all their tears 
On this auspicious morning; And sighs are unavailing: 

No gloomy fears their souls dismay ; The day of grace is past and gone ; 

His Presence sheds eternal day They shake be/ore the Judge's throne, 
On those prepared to meet Hii** All unprepared to meet Him. 



Annotations* ^7 

Stay, fancy, stay, and close thy wings, 

Repress thy flight too daring! 
One wondrous sight my comfort brings, 

The Judge my nature wearing. 
Beneath His cross I view the day 
When Heaven and Earth shall pass away, 

And thus prepare to meet Him. 

Bartholomew Ringwaldt was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1530, 
and was a Lutheran pastor at Langfield, in Prussia, where he died, 1598. 
His hymns resemble Luther's in their simplicity and power. Several of 
them were written to comfort himself and others in the sufferings they 
endured from famine, pestilence, fire and floods. In 1581, he published 
" Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole Year" 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; 
Church; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; Chope; Morrell 
and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; 
Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



485. "Hark! hark, my soul ! Angelic songs are swelling!' 

Frederick William Faber (1854?); in " Oratory Hymns!' The second 
and sixth verses of the original are here omitted. One line is altered in 
the text, reading thus in the original : — 

Verse 5, line 4, "And life's long night shall break in endless love.' ; 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; People's; Hymnal 
Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary. 



486. " Christ leads me through no darker rooms." 

Richard Baxter (1681). The original consists of eight eight-line verses, 
beginning, "My whole, though broken heart, O Lord!" It is entitled 
" The Covenant and Confidence of Faith." The text comprises the last 
two of the original verses, somewhat altered. The lines altered in the 
text are, in the original as given by Rogers, as follows : — 

Verse 1, line 3, "He that unto God's kingdom comes." 

Verse 2, line 4, " What will Thy glory be ! " 

Verse 3, line 3, "And join with the triumphant saints 
" 4, That sing Jehovah's praise." 

Verse 4, line 3, " But it's enough that Christ knows all." 

12 



jjS Annotations* 

Richard Baxter was born at Rowton, in Shropshire, in 1610. Taking 
Orders in the Church of England, he was appointed, in 1640, to the 
parish of Kidderminster. He attached himself to the Puritan party in 
the Church, and on the passage of the Act of Uniformity, renounced his 
living. For nine years he lived in retirement, at Acton, Middlesex, pro- 
ducing during this period many of his theological works. The Act of 
Indulgence permitted him to proceed to London in 1672, where he divided 
his time between preaching and writing. In 1685, on a charge of sedition, 
he was sentenced to imprisonment by the infamous Judge Jeffreys. After 
eighteen months' imprisonment, he was pardoned and released. He died 
in 1691. His works were collected in twenty-five volumes, 1830. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; Sarum ; People's ; Elliott ; 
Alford; Church; Marylebone ; Canterbury; Bickersteth; Rogers. Also 
by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



487. "How long shall earth's alluring toys. 

Miss Anne Steele (1760). The text is unaltered. 
This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



488. " There is a land of pure delight" 

Isaac Watts (1709). "Local tradition connects this hymn with the 
neighbourhood of Southampton, and says that it was while looking out 
upon the beautiful scenery of the harbour and river, and the green glades 
of the New Forest on its farther bank, that the idea suggested itself to 
Dr. Watts of ' a land of pure delight,' and of ' sweet fields beyond the 
swelling flood, dressed in living green,' as an image of the heavenly ' Ca- 
naan.'" The only alteration in the text is in line 3, of verse 3, which has 
in the original, as given by Rogers, "old" instead of "fair." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Irish ; People's ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Can- 
terbury; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by 
Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



489. "For ever with the Lord /" 

James Montgomery (1835). The original has twenty-two verses; the 
first six are here retained. The text agrees with that of Palmer. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Barry ; Alford ; Windle ; Bicker- 
steth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



Annotations* l7 g 

490. " The world is very evil." 

{Hora novissima.) 

From the Rhythm " De Contemplu Mundi" of S. Bernard of Cluny 
(ab. 1145); translated by John Mason Neale (1858). "The original is in 
great part a bitter satire on the corruptions of the age, but opens, by way 
of contrast, with this exquisite description of the peace and glory of 
heaven. It comprises nearly three thousand lines, of dactylic hexameters, 
with the leonine (sometimes a trisyllabic or dactylic) and tailed rhyme, 
each line being broken up in three equal parts, — a most difficult metre, 
which only a special grace and inspiration enabled the author, as he be- 
lieved, to master. I quote the first lines : — 

Hora n5vlssima || tempora pessima || stint : vigilemus ! 
Ecce ! minaciter | imminet arbiter || ille supremus! 
Imminet, imminet, | ut mala terminet || aequa coronet ! 
Recta remuneret, | auxia liberet || aethera donet. 

It was first published by Matthias Flacius, with other poems calling for 
a reformation of ecclesiastical abuses, Basle, 1557; and about five times 
since, more recently by Trench, though only in part ; but first naturalized 
in English by the admirable transfusion of Dr. Neale, portions of which, 
especially ' Jerusalem the golden,' have at once been adopted as ' a price- 
less acquisition,' to the hymns of the Church Universal." (Schaff 's " Christ 
in Song" p. 642.) 

The text of this hymn (No. 490), as well as of the three following, is 
from "Hymns Ancient and Modern" without material alteration, though 
it differs slightly, in some parts, from Neale's translation. 

Bernard of Cluny, who lived in the 1 2th century, was born at Morlaix, 
in Brittany, and is said to have been the child of English parents. Noth- 
ing is known of his life. A connection can be traced between him and 
several English parish churches. When the priory of Castleaen, Norfolk, 
was founded, Cluniac monks came over to occupy it; from that priory 
several churches were founded. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M.; Hymnal Noted ; 
Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



491. " Brief life is here our portion" 
{Hie breve vivilur.) 

S. Bernard of Cluny (ab. 1145) ; translated by John Mason Neale (185 1) 
in his "Mediaeval Hymns." See the preceding hymn. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Irish ; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Canterbury; Chope; 
Morrell and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. 
Also by Cong. 



180 Annotations* 

492. "For thee, dear, dear Country" 
(0 bona p atria!) 

S. Bernard of Cluny(ab. 1145); translated by John Mason Neale(i85i) 
in his " Mediaeval Hymns." See hymn No. 490. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Canterbury; 
Chope; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hymnary. Also by Presb.; Ref. 
Ch. 



493. " Jerusalem the golden!' 
( Urbs Syon aurea.) 

S. Bernard of Cluny (ab. 1145) ; translated by John Mason Neale (185 1) 
in his " Mediaeval Hymns'' See hymn No. 490. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Windle; Can- 
terbury; Chope; Morrell and How; Hymnal Noted; Bickersteth; Hym- 
nary ; Palmer. Also by Ref. Ch. 



494. " What are these in bright array." 

James Montgomery (1819); in " Colterill's Selection." The text is 
from Palmer, without material alteration. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Alford ; 
Marylebone; Bickersteth; Palmer. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



495. " mother dear, Jerusalem." 

"F. B. P." (1576); ascribed also to David Dickson (1660). Concerning 
this hymn the editor cannot do better than to quote from Rogers' 
"Lyra Britannica" p. 667: "A Latin hymn of the 8th century, com- 
mencing, ' Urbs beata, Hierusalem,' has, like Dies Irae, proved the founda- 
tion of several interesting modern compositions. A manuscript quarto 
volume in the British Museum, No. 15,225, contains (p. 72) a hymn of 
twenty-six verses, entitled 'A Song Mad by F. B. P. to the tune of Diana.' 
Fourteen verses of this composition have been published by Sir Roundell 
Palmer, in his ' Book of Praise.' There is no date attached to it, but there 
is evidence to show that it was not written prior to 16 16 (Sedgwick says 
1576). Dickson's hymn is so far a variation on the Museum version, 
but extends to thirty-six additional verses. From the expression 'Our 



^nnotatioits* j8i 

Ladie,' which occurs in the latter, it would appear to have been composed 
by a Roman Catholic. Dickson had probably seen the Museum copy in 
the form of a tract, and, admiring its strain, had adopted it as the founda- 
tion of a hymn for Protestants. His version was printed in a broadsheet. 
In a valuable paper in Excelsior, a religious serial, the ingenious writer 
traces the original conception of the hymn to S. Augustine. See Excelsior, 
Lond., 1854, vol. i., pp. 267-276." 

The text is composed of transposed portions of the version ascribed to 
Dickson, some of them considerably altered. 

David Dickson was born at Glasgow, in 1583. He became a Presby- 
terian minister in 161 8, and in 1640 Professor of Divinity at Glasgow; 
ten years later he accepted the Chair of Theology in the University of 
Edinburgh. He was deprived of his office at the Restoration, for refusing 
the oath of supremacy. He died in 1663. He published a number of 
works. 

This hymn is adopted by Rogers. Also by Presb.; Bapt; Ref. Ch. 



496. " jferusalem, my happy home!' 

Founded on the preceding hymn; in its present form, anonymous 
(1801); in " Williams and Boderis Collection" there copied from the 
" Eckington Collection" The reader is referred to the notes on the pre- 
ceding hymn. 

This hymn is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; Barry ; Irish ; Sarum ; 
A. and M.; Elliott; Alford; Church; Marylebone; Windle; Canterbury; 
Chope ; Morrell and How ; Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary ; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



497. " Jerusalem ! high tower thy glorious walls" 
(Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt.) 

John Matthias Meyfart (1630) ; translated by William Rollinson Whit- 
tingham, in " Hymns for Church and Home" (1859). "The best known 
German hymn on the Heavenly City is by Meyfart, or rather is Kosegar- 
ten's imitation of it." {Biggs.) It has also been translated by Miss Cox, 
Miss Winkworth, and John Mason Neale. 

This hymn is not adopted in any of the Hymnals examined. 



498. " Lord, Thy mercy; my sure hope." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxvi. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble; S. P.C. K.; Barry; Islington; 
Windle; Bickersteth. 



j8 2 Annotations* 



499. " My soul, inspired with sacred love." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm ciii. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Church : 
Windle. Also by Cong. 



500. " The Lord descended from above'* 

Psalm xviii. The first two verses are by Thomas Sternhold (d. 1549); 
the last verse is anonymous. "The learned Scaliger declared that he 
would rather be the author of the second verse than of all that he had 
written." 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S.P. C.K.; Elliott; Islington; Windle. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt. 

501. "Thou art the Way, to Thee alone." 

George Washington Doane (1824); in "Songs by the Way." Also in 
the Prayer Book Collection, from which the text is taken unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Islington; Win- 
dle ; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Ref. Ch. 



502. " God moves in a mysterious way." 

William Cowper (1774); in the " Gospel Magazine." The title of this 
hymn is " Light shining out of darkness." Concerning its origin, it is 
said, that in one of his fits of melancholy Cowper thought it was the 
Divine will that he should go to a particular part of the river Ouse and 
drown himself, but in going the driver missed the way, and on the poet's 
return he wrote this hymn. Montgomery terms it " a lyric of high tone 
and character, and rendered awfully interesting by the circumstances un- 
der which it was written — in the twilight of departing reason." It was 
the last he composed for the " Olney Collection." The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall; Kemble; Mercer; Barry; 
Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Alford ; Islington; Windle; Can- 
terbury; Bickersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; 
Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



503. "Happy, thrice happy they, who hear." 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxxxix. A portion only of the original 
version. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 



Annotations, 



504. " The Lord my pasture shall prepare' 



183 



Joseph Addison (1712); appearing at the close of an essay on "Trust 
in God," in the " Spectator," No. 441 (July 26, 1712). The essay contains 
the following words by Addison: "The person who has a firm trust on 
the Supreme Being is powerful in His power, wise by His wisdom, happy 
by His happiness. He reaps the benefit of every Divine attribute, and 
loses his own insufficiency in the fulness of Infinite perfection." The last 
verse of the original is here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry ; Irish ; Singleton ; Elliott ; Islington ; Marylebone ; Windle ; Bick- 
ersteth; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



505. " Guide me, Thou great yehovah" 

William Williams (1773). It is taken from the Welsh of Williams, but 
the author of the translation is not known. The last verse of the original 
is here omitted. In the original the fifth line of each verse is repeated. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble ; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Irish; Singleton; A. and M.; Elliott; Islington; Windle; Morrell 
and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



506. "Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us." 

James Edmeston (1820). The text is from Palmer, unaltered. 

The author was born at Wapping, London, in 1 791. He was educated 
at Hackney, and at the age of sixteen was articled to an architect and 
surveyor. In 18 16, he commenced business on his own account. During 
his life he took an active interest in Church Schools, and providing for 
them proper buildings. He died in 1867. He was the author of nearly 
2,000 hymns. One of them — " Saviour, breathe an evening blessing" — a 
universal favourite, is not in this collection. 

This hymn is adopted by Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; Single- 
ton; Elliott; Marylebone; Windle; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; 
Palmer. Also by Presb. 



507. "Nearer, my God, to Thee" 

Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams (1841) ; in Part II. of Charles Fox's "Hymns 
and Anthems." The text has no material alteration except in line 4 of 
verse 4, where "Altars" is substituted for "Bethel." 

Sarah Fuller Flower was the daughter of Benjamin Flower, editor and 
proprietor of "The Canibridge Lntelligencer" She was born in 1805. 



z84 &nriotutions. 

She early showed a taste for literature, and with her sister, also of literary 
tastes, devoted some years to intellectual culture. In 1 8 34, she married 
William Bridges Adams, an eminent engineer, and a contributor to some 
of the principal newspapers and reviews. She died in 1849. Her relig- 
ious position was that of a Unitarian. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M.; People's ; Elliott ; Alford ; Windle ; Canter- 
bury ; Chope ; Morrell and How; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer; Rogers. 
Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



508. "The spacious firmament on high." 

Joseph Addison (1712). It appeared at the close of an article by 
Addison on " The Right Means to Strengthen Faith" in the " Spectator,'" 
No. 465 (August 23, 1712). The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Hall ; Kemble; Mercer ; S. P. C. K.; 
Barry; Singleton; Elliott; Islington; Marylebone; Windle; Bickersteth; 
Palmer; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



509. " Paradise, Paradise ! " 

Frederick William Faber (1854 ?) ; in his " Oratory Hymns." The text 
is from "Hymns Ancient and Modern" but the third verse of the original 
is omitted, and the last verse is added to the author's version. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; A. and M. ; People's ; Morrell and 
How ; Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. Also by Ref. Ch. 



510. "In Thee I put my steadfast trust! 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm lxxi. 

This is adopted by Pr. Bk.; S. P. C. K.; Windle. 



511. "Almighty God! I call to Thee." 

Martin Luther (1524); translation anonymous; in " Hymns for Church 
and Home" (1859). 

This hymn is not found in any of the collections examined. 



512. "Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom." 

John Henry Newman (1833); in "Lyra Apostolica" (1836). "This 
hymn possesses great autobiographic interest. It was written in 1833, 
when its author was on a voyage in the Mediterranean. He had just 



^ttrtotattous* 185 

been overtaken by illness, his soul was passing through remarkable ex- 
periences, and he was watching with deep interest the religious move- 
ment going on at home." {Miller.) The text is from " Hymns Ancient and 
Modern" unaltered. 

John Henry Newman was born in London, in 1801. He studied at 
Trinity College, Oxford, graduating B. A. in 1820, and was subsequently 
Fellow of Oriel College. In 1825, he became Vice Principal of S. Alban's 
Hall, and was Tutor of his college for several years. In 1828, he became 
incumbent of S. Mary's, Oxford, with the chaplaincy of Littlemore. In 
1842, he went to preside over a Brotherhood he had established at Little- 
more. He was the author of twenty-four of the "Tracts for the Times" 
amongst them the celebrated Tract No. go, which brought censure upon 
its author. In 1845, he left the Church of England and entered the 
Church of Rome. He was appointed Father Superior of the Oratory of 
S. Philip Neri, at Birmingham, and in 1854, Rector of the new Roman 
Catholic University at Dublin, an office he filled till 1858. He now 
resides at Birmingham. He has published a large number of works. 

This hymn is adopted by Barry; Sarum ; Singleton ; A. and M.; Elliott ; 
Windle ; Hymnary ; Palmer. Also by Ref. Ch. 



513. " where shall rest be found" 

James Montgomery (1819); in " Cotierill's Selection." The original 
has three eight-line verses, of which the text comprises all but the last 
four lines. In line 3 of verse 5, the original reads "driven" instead of 
" banished." 

This hymn is adopted by Pr. Bk.; Kemble ; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; 
Irish; Elliott ; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; 
Ref. Ch. 



514. "Art thou weary, art thou languid?' 
(K67rov re ml nafiarov.) 

S. Stephen the Sabaite (d. 794); translated by John Mason Neale (1862) 
in "Hymns of the Ancient Church." "The original stanzas Neale has 
entitled ' Idiomela in the week of the first oblique tone.' He uses the 
word 'idiomela' for 'stanzas which are their own models.' The other 
part of the title refers to the chant or tune appointed in the Eastern 
Church service for this piece." {Miller.) 

S. Stephen, called the Sabaite, from the Monastery of S. Sabas, near 
Jerusalem, was a nephew of S. John Damascene. He was only ten years 
of age when his uncle placed him in the monastery, and he remained 
there fifty-nine years. Little is known of his life. He is commemorated 
on July 13. 

This hymn is adopted by S. P. C. K.; Sarum; Singleton; A. and M.; 
People's ; Hymnal Noted ; Bickersteth ; Hymnary. 



186 Annotations, 

515. "T/wu hidden love of God, Whose height" 

(Verborgne Gottesliebe Du.) 

Gerhard Tersteegen (1731); translated by John Wesley (1736). The 
text consists of the first, fourth, fifth and eighth verses. The text is unal- 
tered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; Barry; Irish; Elliott; 
Islington; Windle; Bickersteth. Also by Cong.; Meth.; Bapt. 

516. " The Lord our God is clothed with mighty 

Henry Kirke White (d. 1806). The text has no material alteration. 
This hymn is adopted by Presb.; Cong.; Meth.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 

517. " Thou to Whom all creatures bow" 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm viii. 

This is adopted by Hall ; Kemble ; S. P. C. K.; Barry ; Elliott ; Church ; 
Islington ; Windle ; Bickersteth. Also by Cong. 

518. " My hope, my steadfast trust? 

Tate and Brady (1696) ; Psalm xxxi. 
This is adopted by Pr. Bk. 

519. " worship the King." 

Robert Grant (^.1838); in " Sacred Poems" (1839). Founded upon 
William Kethe's version of the 104th Psalm, beginning, " My soul, praise 
the Lord." The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Mercer; S. P. C. K.; Barry; Irish; 
Singleton; A. and M.; People's; Elliott; Alford; Islington; Marylebone; 
Windle; Canterbury; Chope ; Morrell and How ; Bickersteth; Hymnary; 
Palmer ; Rogers. Also by Presb.; Cong.; Bapt.; Ref. Ch. 



520. " Far from my heavenly home" 

Henry Francis Lyte (1834) ; in the " Spirit of the Psalms." The second 
verse of the original is here omitted. The text is unaltered. 

This hymn is adopted by Kemble; Barry ; Irish ; Singleton; A. and M.; 
Islington; Windle; Bickersteth; Hymnary; Palmer. Also by Presb.; 
Cong.; Ref. Ch. 



LIST OF AUTHORS. 



[When a biographical sketch is given in the foregoing pages, it may be found with 
the first hymn here assigned to the author.] 



Adam of S. Victor, 272. 

Adams, Mrs. Sarah Flower, 507. 

Addison, Joseph, 269, 426, 504, 508. 

Alexander, Rev. James Waddell, 87. 

Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances, 91, 107, 231, 233, 292, 380. 

Alford, Dean Henry, 214, 306. 

Allen, Rev. James, 84. 

Ambrose, Saint, 100. 

Anatolius, Saint, 265, 341. 

Andrew, Saint (of Crete), 68. 

Anonymous, 41, 50, 99, 125, 133, 166, 173, 174, 178, 180, 181, 183 

223, 227, 229, 244, 273, 290, 295, 351, 373, 421, 496. 
Atheno genes, 348. 
Auber, Miss Harriet, 132. 

Bakewell, Rev. John, 76. 

Baker, Rev. Sir Henry Williams, 75, 246, 305, 312, 317, 464. 

Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Letitia, 156, 261 (?), 302. 

Baxter, Rev. Richard, 486. 

Beddome, Rev. Benjamin, 239, 271, 479. 

Benson, Rev. Richard M., 182. 

Bernard, Saint (of Clairvaux), 87, 455. 

Bernard, Saint (of Chmy), 490, 491, 492, 493. 

Bethune, Rev. George W., 97. 

Bickersteth, Rev. Edward Henry, 388. 

Bohemian Brethren, 106. 



!88 3List of ^utljors, 

Bonar, Rev. Horatius, 28, 254. 

Borthwick, Miss Jane, 5, 291. 

Bowdler, John, 452. 

Bowring, Sir James, 43. 

Brady, Nicholas (see Tate and Brady), 6. 

Bridges, Matthew, 80, 116, 198, 234. 

Browne, Rev. Simon, 131. 

Bruce, Michael, 222, 390. 

Byrom, John, 21. 

C F , 310. 

Cameron, Rev. William, 177, 475. 

Campbell, Robert, 100, 272. 

Carlyle, Rev. Joseph Dacre, 69. 

Caswall, Rev. Edward, 25, 74, 345, 378, 455, 458. 

Cawood, Rev. John, 20. 

Cennick, Rev. John, 1, 449. 

Chandler, Rev. John, 12, 48, 279, 358. 

Collyer, Rev. William Bengo, 247, 484. 

Compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern, 32, 48, 100, 272. 

Conder, Rev. Josiah, 209, 323. 

Cooper, John, 142. 

Cosin, Bishop John, 137. 

Cotterill, Rev. Thomas, 148, 413 (?). 

Cowper, William, 365, 383, 435, 445, 446, 502. 

Cox, Miss Frances Elizabeth, 104. 

Cro swell, Rev. William, 300. 

De Wolfe, John, 433. 

Dickson, Rev. David, 495. 

Dix, William Chatterton, 45, 249 (?). 

Doane, Bishop George Washington, 8, 340, 501. 

Doddridge, Rev. Philip, 15, 30, 171, 192, 205, 206, 212, 217, 235, 

296, 297, 304, 326, 327, 371, 376, 473, 476, 482. 
Dryden, John, 129. 
Duncan, Mrs. Mary Lundie, 352. 
Dwight, John S., 309. 
D wight, Rev. Timothy, 191. 



3List of &utfjors* jg 9 



East, John, 468. 

Eastburn, Rev. James Wallis, 139. 

Edmeston, James, 506. 

Ellerton, Rev. John, 159, 169, 346, 432. 

Elliott, Miss Charlotte, 256, 392. 

Elven, Rev. Cornelius, 71. 

Evans, Rev. Jonathan, 88. 

F— B P , 495- 

Faber, Rev. Frederick William, 89, 338, 460, 485, 509. 
Fawcett, Rev. John, 315. 
Fortunatus, Venantius, 79. 
Francis, Rev. Benjamin, 152. 
Frank, Johann, 308. 

Gellert, Christian Fiirchtegett, 104. 

Gerhardt, Paul, 87. 

Gibbons, Rev. Thomas, 101. 

Gilman, Mrs. Caroline, 444. 

Gisborne, Rev. Thomas, 325. 

Godescalcus, 425. 

Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring, 232. 

Grant, Sir Robert, 53, 250, 519. 

Grigg, Rev. Joseph, 218. 

Griswold, Bishop Alexander Viets, 145. 

Gurney, Rev. John Hampden, 251. 

Guyon, Madame Jeanne Bouvier de la Motte, 457. 

Hammond, Rev. William, 463. 

Hart, Rev. Joseph, 135, 167, 381. 

Haweis, Rev. Thomas, 65. 

Heath, George, 470. 

Heber, Bishop Reginald, 2, 4, 37, 138, 176, 201, 207, 224, 266, 283 

344. 
Hensley, L., 7. 
Hinds, Bishop Samuel, 241. 
Hopkins, Rev. John, 405. 

How, Rev. William Walsham, 10, 33, 186, 187, 299, 362. 
Hutton, Henry Wollaston, 443. 



190 3List of gtutfiors* 

HUTTON, J., I58. 

Hyde, Mrs. Ann Beadley, 215. 

Irons, Rev. William Josiah, 483. 

John, Saint Damascene, 105. 
Joseph, Saint (of the Studium), 262. 
Joyce, Rev. James, 294. 

Keble, Rev. John, 136, 172, 240, 248, 329, 336, 348, 367. 

Keith, George, 398. 

Kelly, Rev. Thomas, 77, 78, 102, 115, 118, 342. 

Ken, Bishop Thomas, 332, 333. 

Kethe, Rev. William, 405. 

Key, Francis Scott, 307, 454. 

King, Joshua, 219. 

Laurenti, Laurentius, 5. 

Leland, Rev. John, 334. 

Logan, Rev. John, 326. 

Lowth, Bishop Robert, 155. 

Luke, Mrs. Jemima, 226. 

Luther, Martin, 397, 511. 

Lyte, Rev. Henry Francis, 200, 236, 335, 520. 

Macduff, Rev. John Robert, 394. 
Mackay, Mrs. Margaret, 260. 
Maitland, Miss Fanny Fuller, 477. 
Mant, Bishop Richard, 81, 423, 431. 
Marriott, Rev. John, 146. 
Mason, Rev. John, 149, 274. 
Maude, Mrs. Mary Fawler, 238. 
Medley, Rev. Samuel, 374, 429. 
Meinhold, John William, 263. 
Merrick, Rev. James, -199. 
Meyfart, John Matthias, 497. 
Middleton, Bishop Thomas Fanshaw, 61. 
Milman, Dean Henry Hart, 73, 82, 252. 



%\%x of gCut&ors* I9I 

Monsell, Rev. John Samuel Bewly, 64. 

Montgomery, James, 24, 34, 42, 86, 126, 130, 144, 163, 211, 220, 

230, 270, 275, 298, 400, 404, 408, 422, 443, 466, 469, 489, 494, 

513. 
Morrison, Rev. John, 27. 
Moultrie, Rev. John, 92. 
Muhlenberg, Rev. William Augustus, 23, 93, 195, 213. 

Neale, Rev. John Mason, 13, 68, 72, 79, 105, 262, 265, 276, 282, 
34i, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 425, 430, 490, 491, 492, 493, 
514. 

Nelson, Earl, 14, 175. 

Newman, Rev. John Henry, 512. 

Newton, Rev. John, 31, 164, 168, 190, 350, 395, 399, 401, 450, 465, 
481. 

Noel, Hon. and Rev. Gerard Thomas, 255. 

Oakeley, Rev. Frederick, 19. 
Ogilvie, Rev. John, 419. 
Olivers, Rev. Thomas, 141. 

Onderdonk, Bishop Henry Ustick, 35, 59, 134, 286, 293, 379, 382 
442, 479. 

Palmer, Rev. Ray, 237. 
Patrick, Rev. John, 203. 
Perronet, Rev. Edward, 424. 
Pope, Alexander, 36. 
Pott, 'Rev. Francis, 103. 
Proctor, Miss Adelaide Anne, 337. 
Prynne, Rev. George Rundle, 225. 

Raffles, Rev. Thomas, 253. 
Ringwaldt, Bartholomew, 484. 
Rinkart, Martin, 303. 
Robinson, George, 197. 
Robinson, Rev. Robert, 370. 
Rodigast, Samuel, 257. 
Russell, Rev. Arthur Tozer, 109. 



I9 2 SLint of glutliavB. 

Santolius, Maglorianus, 75. 

Scott, Miss Elizabeth, 148. 

Scott, Rev. Thomas, 58, 101. 

Scott, Sir Walter, 3. 

Seagrave, Rev. Robert, 447. 

Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton, 22, 26. 

Shirley, Hon. Walter, 84, 165, 375. 

Shrubsole, William, 287, 314. 

Silesius, Angelus, 461. 

Smith, Samuel J., 328. 

Smyttan, Rev. George Hunt, 49. 

Stammers, Joseph, 472. 

Steele, Miss Anne, 56, 66, 151, 204, 311, 343, 360, 372, 440, 487. 

Stennett, Rev. Joseph, 153. 

Stennett, Rev. Samuel, 85. 

Stephen, Saint, the Sabaite, 514. 

Sternhold, Thomas, 405, 500. 

Stone, Rev. Samuel John, 67, 202. 

Stowell, Rev. Hugh, 403. 

Tate, Nicholas, 18, 127. 

Tate and Brady, 6, 11, 18, 38, 51, 52, 55, 60, 94, 95/110, 112, 
120, 121, 122, 162, 185, 193, 194, 196, 221, 243, 245, 258, 264, 
277, 278, 280, 281, 285, 301, 316, 319, 320, 322, 363, 366, 368, 
377, 406, 407, 410, 411, 412, 414, 415, 416, 418, 421, 427, 436, 
437, 438, 439,- 448, 45i, 498, 499, 5<>3, 510, 517, 518. 

Tersteegen, Gerhard, 62, 515. 

Theodulph, Saint, 72. 

Thomas of Celano, 483. 

Thursby, 384. 

Toke, Mrs. Emma, 113, 179. 

Tonna, Mrs. (Charlotte Elizabeth), 268. 

Toplady, Rev. Augustus Montague, 339, 391. 

Tuttiett, Rev. Laurence, 9. 

Von CAnitz, Baron, 330. 






%\%\ of ^uttiors* 



i93 



Ware, Rev. Henry, 108. 

Watts, Rev. Isaac, 29, 40, 44, 57, 83, 96, 119, 123, 124, 128, 143 

147, 150, 154, 157, 161, 184, 208, 228, 259, 284, 289, 313, 321, 

324, 361, 364, 369, 385, 386, 409, 420, 453, 459, 462, 471, 488 
Weiss, Michael, 106. 
Wesley, Rev. Charles, 1, 17, 39, 47, 54, 70, 98, 114, 117, 170, 188 

210, 216, 318, 331, 387, 389, 393, 396, 402, 409, 417, 428, 434 

456, 467, 474, 478. 
Wesley, Rev. John, 62, 119, 461, 480, 515. 
Whately, Archbishop Richard, 344. 
White, Henry Kirke, 46, 477, 516. 
Whiting, William, 267. 

Whittingham, Bishop William Rollinson, 397, 497. 
Whytehead, Rev. Thomas, 90. 
Williams, Miss Helen Maria, 441. 
Williams, Rev. Isaac, 63. 
Williams, Bishop John, in. 
Williams, Rev. William, 288, 505. 
Winkworth, Miss Catherine, 106, 257, 263, 303, 308. 
Wordsworth, Bishop Christopher, 140, 160, 189, 242, 349. 

Xavier, Saint Francis, 458. 

Zinzendorf, Count, 480. 



13 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 



HYMN. 

A charge to keep I have Charles Wesley. 474 

A few more years shall roll Horatius Bonar. 28 

A glory gilds the sacred page William Cowper. 365 

A Mountain Fastness is our God M. Luther; tr. by W. R. Whittingkam. 397 

Abide with me ; fast falls the eventide Henry Francis Lyte. 335 

According to Thy gracious word James Montgomery. 211 

Adored for ever be the Lord Tate and Brady \ and A non. 421 

Again the Lord of life and light A nna Letitia Barhauld. 156 

Ah, how shall fallen man Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 382 

Ah, not like erring man is God Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 379 

All glorious God, what hymns of praise Philip Doddridge. 371 

All glory, laud, and honour S. Theodzdph ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 72 

. All hail the power of Jesus' Name Edward Perronet. 424 

All is o'er, the pain, the sorrow Joh n Moultrie. 92 

All people that on earth do dwell William Kethe. 405 

All praise to Thee, my God, this night Thomas Ken. 333 

All ye who seek for sure relief Pom. Brev.; tr. by Edward Caswall. 378 

Alleluia, song of sweetness Tr. by John Mason Neale. 430 

Almighty Father, bless the word A non. 166 

Almighty God, I call to Thee Martin Luther; trans. A non. 511 

Almighty Lord, before Thy throne Anne Steele. 311 

Although the vine its fruit deny Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 442 

Am I a soldier of the cross Isaac Watts. 471 

And are we now brought near to God Philip Doddridge. 206 

And is the time approaching Jane Borthwick. 291 

Angel bands, in strains sweet sounding John De Wolfe. 433 

Angels, from the realms of glory James Montgomery. 24 

Angels, roll the rock away Thomas Scott and Thomas Gibbons. 101 

Another six days' work is done Joseph Stennett. 153 

Approach, my soul, the mercy -seat John Newton. 399 

Arise, my soul, with rapture rise Samuel J. Smith. 328 

Arm of the Lord, awake, awake William Shrubsole. 287 

Arm these Thy soldiers, mighty Lord Christopher Wordsworth. 242 

Art thou weary, art thou languid ..S. Stephen the Sabaite ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 514 

As now the sun's declining rays Tr. by John Mason Neale. 358 

As o'er the past my memory strays Thomas Fanshaw Middleton. 61 

As, panting in the sultry beam '.. John Bawdier. 452 



196 



Etitre? of JFttst SLints. 



As pants the hart for cooling streams Tate and Brady. 451 

As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs Robert Lowth. 155 

As, when the weary traveller gains John Newton. 450 

As with gladness men of old William Chatterton Dix. 45 

Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep Margaret Mackay. 260 

At the Lamb's high feast we sing Rom. Brev.; tr. by Robert Campbell. 100 

Awake, and sing the song William Hammond. 463 

Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thomas Ken. 332 

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve Philip Doddridge. 476 

Awake, my soul, to joyful lays Samuel Medley. 429 

Awake, ye saints, awake Elizabeth Scott and Tliomas Cotterill. 148 

Before Jehovah's awful throne Isaac Watts. 409 

Before the ending of the day Tr. by John Mason Neale. 359 

Before the Lord we bow Francis Scott Key. 307 

Begin, my soul, th' exalted lay John Ogilvie. 419 

Behold a humble train A non. 180 

Behold the glories of the Lamb Isaac Watts. 123 

Behold the Lamb of God Matthew Bridges. 80 

Behold the morning sun Isaac Watts. 364 

Bless God, my soul ; Thou, Lord, alone Tate and Brady. 410 

Blest be the tie that binds John Fawcett. 315 

Blest day of God, most calm, most bright John Mason. 149 

Bound upon the accursed tree Henry Hart Milman. 82 

Bread of heaven, on Thee we feed Josiah Conder. 209 

Bread of the world, in mercy broken Reginald Heber. 207 

Breast the wave, Christian Joseph Stammers. 472 

Brief life is here our portion 6*. Berjiard of Cluny ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 491 

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Reginald Heber. 37 

By cool Siloam's shady rill Reginald Heber. 224 

Calm on the listening ear of night Edmund Hamilton Sears. 26 

Children of the heavenly King John Cennick. 449 

Christ is made the sure Foundation Tr. by John Mason Neale. 282 

Christ is our Corner-Stone Tr. by Jo/171 Chandler. 279 

Christ leads me through no darker rooms Richard Baxter. 486 

Christ the Lord is risen again M. Weiss ; tr. by C. Winkworth. 106 

Christ the Lord is risen to-day Charles Wesley. 98 

Christ, Whose glory fills the skies Charles Wesley. 331 

Christian ! dost thou see them S. A ndrew of Crete ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 68 

Christians, awake, salute the happy morn John Byrom. 21 

Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove Simon Browne. 131 

Come hither, ye faithful Tr. by Edward Caswall. 25 

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come Tr. by Nakum Tate. 127 

Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire Tr. by John Cosin. 137 

Come, Holy Ghost, with God the Son Tr. by John Mason Neale. 355 

Come, Holy Spirit, come Joseph Hart. 135 

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove Isaac Watts. 128 



Entree of JFtrst 3Lttus, 



197 



Come let us join our cheerful songs Isaac Watts. 208 . 

Come, let us join our friends above Charles Wesley. 188 

Come, my soul, thou must be waking Baron Von Canitz; tr. Anon. 330 

Come, my soul, thy suit prepare John Newton. 401 

Come pure hearts in sweetest, etc. . A dam of S. Victor; tr. by Robert Campbell. 272 

Come, quickly come, dread Judge of all Laurence Tuttiett. 9 

Come see the place where Jesus lay Thomas Kelly. 102 

Come, Thou Almighty King Charles Wesley (?). 428 

Come we that love the Lord Isaac Watts. 462 

Come, ye sinners, poor and needy Joseph Hart. 381 

Come, ye thankful people, come , Henry A Iford. 306 

Creator, Spirit, by Whose aid John Dry den. 129 

Crown Him with many crowns Matthew Bridges. 116 

Dawn purples all the East with light Tr. by John Mason Neale. 354 

Day of judgment, day of wonders John Newton. 481 

Day of wrath ! oh day of mourning Thomas of Celano ; tr. by W. J. Irons. 483 

Dear Saviour, if these lambs should stray Ann Beadley Hyde. 215 

Deign this union to approve William. Bengo Colly er. 247 

Draw, Holy Ghost, Thy seven-fold veil John Keble. 240 

Dread Jehovah, God of nations C. F. . 310 

Dismiss us with Thy blessing, Lord Joseph Hart. 167 

Eternal Father ! strong to save William Whiting. 267 

Far from my heavenly home Henry Francis Lyte. 520 

Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone Isaac Watts. 161 

Father of heaven, Whose love profound John Cooper. 142 

Father of mercies, bow Thine ear Benjamin Beddome. 271 

Father of mercies ! in Thy word A nne Steele. 360 

Father, what'er of earthly bliss Anne Steele. 440 

Fierce was the wild billow S. A natolius ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 265 

For all the saints who from their labours rest William Walsham How. 187 

For ever here my rest shall be Charles Wesley. 396 

For ever with the Lord James Montgomery. 489 

For the Apostles' glorious company ., Williajn Walsham How. 186 

For thee, O dear, dear Country S. Bernard of Cluny; tr. by J. M. Neale. 492 

For Thee, O God, our constant praise Tate and Brady. 407 

Forth from the dark and stormy sky Reginald Heber. 201 

Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I go Charles Wesley. 318 

Forty days and forty nights George Hunt Smyttan. 49 

Fountain of good, to own Thy love Philip Doddridge. 296 

From all that dwell below the skies Isaac Watts. 289 

From all Thy saints in warfare, etc Earl Nelson. 175 

From every stormy wind that blows Hugh Stowell. 403 

From Greenland's icy mountains Reginald Heber. 283 

Glorious things of thee are spoken John Newton. 190 

Glory be to Jesus Tr. by Edward Caswall. 74 



I9 8 Entre* of ffivnt 3Lines* 



HYMN. 

Glory to the Father give James Montgomery. 220 

Glory to Thee, O Lord Emma Toke. 179 

Go forth, ye heralds, in My Name Anon. 273 

Go to dark Gethsemane James Montgomery. 86 

God bless our native land John S. Dwight. 309 

God is our Refuge in distress Tate and Brady. 194 

God moves in a mysterious way William Cowper. 502 

God, my King, Thy might confessing Richard Mant. 423 

God of my life, O Lord most high Tate and Brady. 94 

God of my life, to Thee I call William Cowper. 446 

God of our fathers, by Whose hand Philip Doddridge. 326 

God shall charge His angel legions James Montgomery. 469 

God that madest earth and heaven Reginald Heber and Richard Whately. 344 

God's perfect law converts the soul '. Tate and Brady. 363 

God's temple crowns the holy mount Tate and Brady. 193 

Grace ! 'tis a charming sound Philip Doddridge. 376 

Great God, this sacred day of Thine A nne Steele. 151 

Great God, to Thee my evening song Anne Steele. 343 

Great God, what do I see and hear William Bengo Collyer. 484 

Great is our guilt, our fears are great Anon. 174 

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah William Williams. 505 

Hail, gladdening Light, of His pure glory pour'd. .Athenogenes; tr. by J. Keble. 348 

Hail the day that sees Him rise Charles Wesley. 114 

Hail, Thou long-expected Jesus Charles Wesley. 16 

Hail, Thou once despised Jesus John Bakewell. 76 

Hail to the Lord's Anointed James Montgomery. 34 

Happy, thrice happy they, who hear Tate and Brady. 503 

Hark ! hark, my soul ! Angelic songs are swelling F. W. Faber. 485 

Hark ! the glad sound ! the Saviour comes Philip Doddridge. 15 

Hark ! the herald angels sing Charles Wesley. 17 

Hark ! the song of jubilee James Montgomery. 42 

Hark ! the sound of holy voices Christopher Wordsworth. 189 

Hark ! the voice of love and mercy Jonathan Evans. 88 

Hark ! what mean those holy voices ' John Cawood. 20 

Hasten, sinner ! to be wise Thomas Scott. 58 

Have mercy, Lord, on me ; Tate and Brady. 60 

He is risen ! He is risen ! Cecil Frances A lexander. 107 

He that has God his guardian made Tate and Brady. 319 

Head of the hosts in glory Matthew Bridges. 198 

Hear what the voice from heaven declares Isaac Watts. 259 

Heirs of unending life Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 479 

He's blest, whose sins have pardon gained Tate and Brady. 377 

He's come, let every knee be bent Anon. 125 

High on the bending willows hung Anon. 295 

His mercy and His truth Tate and Brady. 243 

Holy Father, great Creator A lexander Viets Griswold. 145 

Holy, holy, holy Lord Christopher Wordsworth. 140 



Xntrej: of jFtrst 3Liue*. 



199 



Holy, holy, holy Lord \ James Montgomery. 144 

Holy, holy, holy ! Lord God Almighty Reginald Heber. 138 

Hosanna to the living Lord Reginald Heber. 4 

How beauteous are their feet Isaac Watts. 44 

How beautiful the feet that bring John Mason. 274 

How bless'd are they who always keep Tate and Brady. 221 

How bright these glorious spirits shine William Cameron. 177 

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord George Keith. 398 

How long shall earth's alluring toys Anne Steele. 487 

How oft, alas ! this wretched heart Anne Steele. 56 

How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds John Newton. 395 

How vast must their advantage be Tate and Brady. 185 

How welcome was the call Henry Williams Baker. 246 

How will my heart endure Philip Doddridge. 482 

How wondrous and great Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 35 

I love my God, but with no love of mine Jeanne Bouvier Guyon. 457 

I love Thy Kingdom, Lord Timothy Dwight. 191 

I think when I read that sweet story of old Jemima Luke. 226 

I would not live alway, I ask not to stay William A ugustus Muhlenberg. 93 

I'll praise my Maker with my breath Isaac Watts. 420 

I'll wash jny hands in innocence Tate and Brady. 278 

In loud exalted strains Benjamin Francis. 152 

In mercy, not in wrath Anon. 50 

In the hour of trial J. Montgomery and H. W. Hutton. 443 

In the vineyard of our Father Anon. 227 

In Thee I put my steadfast trust Tate and Brady. 510 

In token that thou shalt not fear Henry A l/ord. 214 

Inspirer and Hearer of prayer A ugustus Montague Toplady. 339 

Instruct me in Thy statutes, Lord Tate and Brady. 368 

Is there a lone and dreary hour , Caroline Gilman. 444 

It came upon the midnight clear Edmund Hamilton Sears. 22 

It is not death to die George W. Bethune. 97 

Jehovah reigns, let all the earth Tate and Brady. 418 

Jerusalem ! hightow'r thy glorious walls .Meyfart ; tr. by W. R. Whittingham. 497 

Jerusalem, my happy home Anon. 496 

Jerusalem, the golden 6". Bernard of Cluny ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 493 

Jesu, Lover of my soul Charles Wesley. 393 

Jesu, meek and gentle George Rundle Prynne. 225 

Jesu, the very thought of Thee S. Bernard; tr. by E. Caswall. 455 

Jesus, and shall it ever be Joseph Grigg. 218 

Jesus Christ is risen to-day A non. 99 

Jesus, I my cross have taken Henry Francis Lyte. 236 

Jesus lives : no longer now C. F. Gillert ; tr. by Frances Cox. 104. 

Jesus, my Saviour, look on me J. R. Macduff. 394 

Jesus, my Strength, my Hope Charles Wesley. 434. 

Jesus ! Name of wondrous love William Walsham How. 33 



200 E-tttr** of ffivst %iuzb* 

HYMN. 

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Isaac Watts. 284 

Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me Mary Lundie Duncan. 352 

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness Count Zinzendorf: tr. by John Wesley. 480 

Joy fills the dwelling of the just Tate and Brady. 112 

Joy to the world ! the Lord is come Isaac Watts. 40 

Just as I am, — without one plea Charlotte Elliott. 392 

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom John Henry Newman. 512 

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us James Edmeston. 506 

Let me with light and truth be bless'd Tate and Brady. 162 

Lift up your heads, eternal gates Tate and Brady. 121 

Lift your glad voices in triumph on high Henry Ware. 108 

Light of those whose dreary dwelling Charles Wesley. 39 

Like Noah's weary dove William A ugustus Muhlenberg. 195 

Lo, He comes, with clouds descending C. Wesley and J. Cennick. 1 

Lo ! hills and mountains shall bring forth Tate and Brady. 38 

Lo ! what a cloud of witnesses Anon. 183 

Look, ye saints ; the sight is glorious Thomas Kelly. 115 

Lord, as to Thy dear cross we flee John Hampden Gurney. 251 

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing Walter Shirley. 165 

Lord, for ever at Thy side James Montgomery. 466 

Lord, for the just Thou dost provide Joseph A ddison. 269 

Lord God, the Holy Ghost James Montgomery. 130 

Lord God, we worship Thee Johann Frank; tr. by C. Winkworth. 308 

Lord ! in the morning Thou shalt hear Isaac Watts. 154" 

Lord, in this Thy mercy's day Isaac Williams. 63 

Lord, in Thy Name, Thy servants plead John Keble. 172 

Lord, lead the way the Saviour went William Croswell. 300 

Lord, let me know my term of days Tate and Brady. 258 

Lord of the harvest, hear Charles Wesley. 170 

Lord of the worlds above Isaac Watts. 157 

Lord, pour Thy Spirit from on high - James Montgomery. 270 

Lord, shall Thy children come to Thee Samuel Hinds. 241 

Lord, spare and save our sinful race Anon. 173 

Lord, teach us how to pray aright James Montgomery. 400 

Lord, when this holy morning broke Anon. 351 

Lord, when we bend before Thy throne Joseph Dacre Carlyle. 69 

Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise Thee Francis Scott Key. 454 

Love divine, all love excelling Charles Wesley. 456 

Magnify Jehovah's Name James Montgotnery. 408 

May God accept our vow Anon. 244 

May the grace of Christ our Saviour John Newton. 168 

My faith looks up to Thee Ray Palmer. 237 

My God, accept my heart this day Matthew Bridges. 234 

My God, and is Thy table spread Philip Doddridge. 205 

My God, how endless is Thy love Isaac Watts. 324 






3-nlJtv of jFtrst SLttus, 201 

HYMN. 

My God, how wonderful Thou art Frederick William Faber. 460 

My God, I love Thee, not because 6". Francis Xavier ; tr. by E. Caswall. 458 

My God, my Father, while I stray Charlotte Elliott. 256 

My God, permit me not to be Isaac Watts. 57 

My God ! the covenant of Thy love Philip Doddridge. 217 

My grateful soul shall bless the Lord Tate and Brady. 95 

My hope, my steadfast trust Tate and Brady. 518 

My opening eyes with rapture see J. Hutton (?). 158 

My sins, my sins, my Saviour John Samuel Bewley Monsell. 64 

My soul be on thy guard George Heath. 470 

My soul, for help on God rely Tate and Brady. 439 

My soul, inspired with sacred love Tate and Brady. 499 

My soul with grateful thoughts of love Tate and Brady. 264 

My soul with patience waits Tate and Brady. 55 

Nearer, my God, to Thee Sarah Flower A dams. 507 

New every morning is the love John Keble. 329 

No change of time shall ever shock Tate and Brady. 437 

Not for the dead in Christ we weep A?ina Letitia Barbauld {?). 261 

Not to the terrors of the Lord Isaac Watts. 184 

Now from the altar of our hearts John Mason. 347 

Now may He Who from the dead John Newton. 164 

Now may the God of grace and power Isaac Watts. 313 

Now, my soul, thy voice, etc Santolius Maglorianus ; tr. by H. W. Baker. 75 

Now thank we all our God Martin Rinkart ; tr. by C. Winkworth. 303 

Now to the Lamb that once was slain Isaac Watts. 385 

O all ye people, clap your hands Tate and Brady. 120 

O bless the Lord, my soul Thomas Cotterill {?). 413 

O come, all ye faithful Tr. by Frederic Oakeley. 19 

O come and mourn with me awhile , Frederick William Faber. 89 

O come, loud anthems let us sing Tate and Brady. 301 

O come, O come, Emmanuel Tr. by John Mason Neale. 13 

O could I speak the matchless worth Samuel Medley. 374 

O day of rest and gladness Christopher Wordsworth. 160 

O for a closer walk with God William Cowper. 435 

O for a heart to praise my God Charles Wesley. 467 

O for a thousand tongues to sing Charles Wesley. 417 

O God ! creation's secret Force Tr. by John Mason Neale. 357 

O God, my gracious God, to Thee Tate and Brady. 320 

O God, my heart is fixed, 'tis bent Tate and Brady. 414 

O God of Bethel, by Whose hand Philip Doddridge. 473 

O God of hosts, the mighty Lord Tate and Brady. 245 

O God of love, O King of peace Henry Williams Baker. 312 

O God of truth, O Lord of might Tr. by John Mason Neale. 356 

O God, our help in ages past Isaac Watts. 29 

O gracious God, in Whom I live Anne Steele. 66 

O happy day, that stays my choice Philip Doddridge. 235 



202 En&er of iFtrst Htnes, 



O happy is the man who hears Michael Bruce. 222 

O holy, holy, holy Lord James Wallis Eastburn. 139 

O Jesu, Thou art standing . . . William Walsham How. 10 

O Jesus, Saviour of the lost Edward Henry Bickersteth. 388 

O let triumphant faith dispel (Scotch Paraphrase) Michael Bruce. 390 

O Lord of hosts, Whose glory fills John Mason Neale. 276 

O Lord, the Holy Innocents Anon. 178 

O Lord, Thy mercy, my sure hope Tate and Brady. 498 

O mother dear, Jerusalem u F. B. P." 495 

O Paradise, O Paradise Frederick William Faber. 509 

O praise the Lord in that blest place Tate and Brady. 412 

O praise ye the Lord Tate and Brady. 406 

O render thanks to God above ; Tate and Brady. 416 

O sacred Head, now, etc . S. Bernard ; Paul Gerhardt ; tr. by J. W. A lexander. 87 

O Spirit of the living God James Montgomery. 126 

O that my load of sin were gone Charles Wesley. 389 

O Thou from Whom all goodness flows Thomas Haweis. 65 

O Thou that hear'st when sinners cry Isaac Watts. 386 

O Thou to Whom all creatures bow Tate and Brady. 517 

O Thou to Whose all-searching sight Tersteegen ; tr. by John Wesley. 62 

O Thou Who didst prepare Mrs. Tonna (Charlotte Elizabeth). 268 

O 'twas a joyful sound to hear Tate and Brady. 281 

O where shall rest be found James Montgomery. 513 

O why should Israel's sons, once bless'd James Joyce. 294 

O with due reverence let us all Tate and Brady. 280 

O Wisdom ! spreading mightily, 
O Root of Jesse ! Ensign Thou, 
O Israel's Sceptre ! David's Key, 
O Day-Spring and Eternal Light, 
O King ! Desire of Nations ! come 
O Lawgiver ! Emmanuel ! King, 

O Word of God Incarnate William- Walsham How. 362 

O Worship the King Robert Grant. 519 

O write upon my memory, Lord Isaac Watts. 228 

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness William Williams. 288 

Oft in danger, oft in woe \ F. F. Maitland and H. K. White. 477 

On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry . . ..Paris Breviary ; tr. by John Chandler, 12 

On Sion and on Lebanon Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 286 

One sole baptismal sign George Robinson. 197 

Once in Royal David's city Cecil Frances A lexander. 233 

Once more, O Lord, Thy sign shall be George Washington Doane. 8 

Once more the solemn season calls . . Paris Brev.; tr. by Compilers of A . and M. 48 

Once the angel started back John Williams, in 

Onward, Christian soldiers Sabine Baring Gould. 232 

Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed Harriet A uber. 132 

Our hearts to Thee in prayer we bow W. C. Dix (?). 249 

Our Lord is risen from the dead Charles Wesley. 117 



AmhemU Tr.by Earl Nelson. 



Entre* of Jfirst SLtttes* 203 

HYMN. 

Pain and toil are over now Cecil Frances A lexander. 91 

Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan Walter Shirley. 375 

Pleasant are Thy courts above Henry Francis Lyte. 200 

Praise, O praise our God and King Henry Williams Baker. 305 

Praise to God, immortal praise A nna Letitia Barbauld. 302 

Praise to God Who reigns above Richard M . Benson. 182 

Praise we the Lord this day Anon. 181 

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire James Montgomery. 404 

Quiet, Lord, my froward heart John Newton. 465 

Rejoice, rejoice, believers Laurentius Laurenti ; tr. by J. Borthivick. 5 

Resting from His work to-day , Tfiomas Whytehead. go 

Rich are the joys which cannot die Philip Doddridge, 297 

Ride on ! ride on in majesty Henry Hart Milman. 73 

Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise Alexander Pope. 36 

Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings Robert Seagrave. 447 

Rock of Ages, cleft for me A ugustus Montague Toplady. 3gi 

Round the Lord in glory seated Richard Mant. 431 

Ruler of Israel, Lord of Might, — Advent Anthem Tr. by Earl Nelson. 14 

Safe Home, safe Home in port.. S. Joseph of the Studium ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 262 

Safely through another week John Newton. 350 

Salvation doth to God belong Philip Doddridge. 304 

Salvation, O the joyful sound Isaac Watts. 369 

Saviour, again to Thy dear Name we raise John Ellerton. 169 

Saviour, like a Shepherd lead us A non. 229 

Saviour, source of every blessing Robert Robinson. 370 

Saviour, when in dust to Thee Robert Grant. 53 

Saviour, when night involves the skies Thomas Gisborne. 325 

Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding Williatn Augustus Muhlenberg. 213 

See the destined day arise Richard Mant. 81 

Shepherd divine, our wants relieve Charles Wesley. 402 

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless Charles Wesley. 210 

Shout the glad tidings, exultingly sing William Augustus Muhlenberg. 23 

Since I've known a Saviour's Name Charles Wesley. 478 

Sing Allelulia forth in duteous praise Tr. by John Ellerton. 432 

Sing, my soul, His wondrous love Anon. 373 

Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 59 

Sinners ! turn, why will ye die Charles Wesley. 54 

Softly now the light of day George Washington Doane. 340 

Soldiers of Christ, arise Charles Wesley. 216 

Songs of praise the angels sang James Montgomery. 422 

Sons of men, behold from far Charles Wesley. 47 

Souls in heathen darkness lying Cecil Frances A lexander. 292 

Sow in the morn thy seed James Montgomery. 298 

Spirit of mercy, truth, and love A non. 133 

Stand up, my soul, shake off thy fears Isaac Watts. 124 



204 Xntitx oi jFtrst 3Ltne»* 

HYMN. 

Stay, Thou long-suffering Spirit, stay Charles Wesley. 387 

Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear John Keble. 336 

Supreme in wisdom as in power {Scotch Paraphrase) William Cameron. 475 

Sweet is the work, my God, my King Isaac Watts. 150 

Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go Frederick William Faber. 338 

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing James Allen and Walter Shirley. 84 

Tender Shepherd, Thou, etc. . . John William Meinhold; tr. by C. Winkworth. 263 

That day of wrath, that dreadful day Walter Scott. 3 

The ancient law departs . . .Paris Brev.; tr. by Compilers of Hymns A . and M. 32 

The atoning work is done Thomas Kelly. 118 

The Church's one foundation Samuel John Stone. 202 

The day is gently sinking to a close Christopher Wordsworth. 349 

The day is past and gone John Leland. 334 

The day is past and over S. A natolius ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 341 

The day of praise is done John Ellerton. 346 

The day of resurrection S. John Damascene ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 105 

The gentle Saviour calls Philip Doddridge. 212 

The God of Abraham praise Thomas Olivers. 141 

The God of life, Whose constant care Philip Doddridge. 30 

The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord Isaac Watts. 361 

The King of love my Shepherd is Henry Williams Baker. 464 

The Lord descended from above Thomas Sternhold. 50c 

The Lord hath spoke, the mighty God Tate and Brady. 11 

The Lord Himself, the mighty Lord Tate and Brady. 438 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare Joseph Addison. 504 

The Lord our God is clothed with might ..Henry Kirke White. 516 

The Lord, the only God, is great Tate and Brady. 196 

The Lord unto my Lord thus spake Tate and Brady. 6 

The Lord will come ; the earth shall quake Reginald Heber. 2 

The Name of our God Anon. 41 

The rising God forsakes the tomb Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley. 119 

The royal banners forward go Venantitis Fortunatus ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 79 

The servants of Jehovah's will Tate and Brady. 122 

The shadows of the evening hours Adelaide Anne Proctor. 337 

The Son of God goes forth to war Reginald Heber. 176 

The spacious firmament on high Joseph A ddison. 508 

The Spirit in our hearts Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 134 

The strain upraise of joy and praise Godescalcus ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 425 

The strife is o'er, the battle done Tr. by Francis Pott. 103 

The sun is sinking fast Tr. by Edward Caswall. 345 

The voice of free grace Thursby (?). 384 

The voice that breathed o'er Eden John Keble. 248 

The winged herald of the day Tr. by John Mason Neale. 353 

The world is very evil 6". Bernard of Cluny ; tr. by J. M. Neale. 490 

Thee will I love, my Strength, my Tower ..Angelus Silesius ; tr. by J. Wesley. 461 

There is a blessed home Henry Williams Baker. 317 

There is a book, who runs may read John Keble. 367 



XntJe? of jFtrst SLines. 205 

HYMN. 

There is a fold, whence none can stray John East. 468 

There is a fountain fill'd with blood William Cowper. 383 

There is a green hill far away Cecil Frances A lexander. 231 

There is a land of pure delight Isaac Watts. 488 

Thine for ever : — God of love Mary Fawler Maude. 238 

This is the day of light John Ellerton. 159 

This life's a dream, an empty show , Isaac Watts. 96 

This stone to Thee in faith we lay James Montgomery. 275 

Thou art gone up on high Emma Toke. 113 

Thou art my Hiding-place, O Lord Thomas Raffles. 253 

Thou art thfe Way, to Thee alone George Washington Doane. 501 

Thou, God, all glory, honour, power John Patrick. 203 

Thou hidden love of God, Whose height . Gerhard Tersteegen ; tr. by J. Wesley. 515 

Thou, Lord, by strictest search hast known Tate and Brady. 52 

Thou, Whom my soul admires above Isaac Watts. 459 

Thou, Whose almighty word John Marriott. 146 

Through all the changing scenes of life Tate and Brady. 415 

Through the day Thy love has spared us Thomas Kelly. 342 

Thus God declares His sovereign will Tate and Brady, no 

Thy chastening wrath, O Lord, restrain Tate and Brady. 51 

Thy Kingdom come, O God L. Hensley. 7 

Thy presence, Lord, hath me supplied, Tate and Brady. 448 

Thy way, not mine, O Lord Horatius Bonar. 254 

Thy word is to my feet a lamp Tate and Brady. 366 

'Tis finished : so the Saviour cried Samuel Stennett. 85 

'Tis my happiness below William Cowper. 445 

To bless Thy chosen race Tate and Brady. 285 

To hail Thy rising, Sun of life John Morrison. 27 

To Him Who for our sins was slain A rthur Tozer Russell. 109 

To Jesus, our exalted Lord A nne Steele. 204 

To our Redeemer's glorious Name A nne Steele. 372 

To Sion's hill I lift my eyes Tate and Brady. 316 

To Thy temple I repair James Montgomery. 163 

To-morrow, Lord, is Thine Philip Doddridge. 327 

Triumphant Sion, lift Thy head Philip Doddridge. 192 

Up to the hills I lift mine eyes Isaac Watts. 321 

Watchman ! tell us of the night James Bowring. 43 

We build with fruitless cost, unless Tate and Brady. 322 

We give immortal praise Isaac Watts. 143 

We give Thee but Thine own William Walsham How. 299 

We sing the praise of Him Who died Thomas Kelly. 78 

Weary of earth, and laden with my sin Samuel John Stone. 67 

Weary of wandering from my God Charles Wesley. 70 

Welcome, sweet day of rest Isaac Watts. 147 

What a strange and wondrous story A non. 223 

What are these in bright array James Montgomery. 494 



206 Stirrer of jfirst %intst* 

HYMN. 

Whate'er my God ordains is right Samuel Rodigast ; tr. by C. Winkworth. 257 

When all Thy mercies, O my God Joseph. A ddison. 426 

When gathering clouds around I view Robert Grant. 250 

When God of old came down from heaven John Keble. 136 

When, His salvation bringing Joshua King. 219 

When I can read my title clear Isaac Watts. 453 

When I can trust my all with God Josiah Conder. 323 

When I survey the wondrous Cross Isaac Watts. 83 

When Jesus left His Father's throne James Montgomery. 230 

When, Lord, to this our western land Henry Ustick Onderdonk. 293 

When, marshall'd on the nightly plain Henry Kirke White. 46 

When musing sorrow weeps the past Gerard Thomas Noel. 255 

When our heads are bowed with woe Henry Hart Milman. 252 

When, streaming from the eastern skies William Shrubsole. 314 

When through the torn sail the wild tempest, etc Reginald Heber. 266 

When, wounded sore, the stricken soul Cecil Frances A lexander. 380 

While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night Nahu7n Tate. 18 

While Thee I seek, protecting Power Helen Maria Williams. 441 

While with ceaseless course the sun John Newton. 31 

Who is this that comes from Edom Thomas Kelly. 77 

Who place on Sion's God their trust Tate and Brady. 436 

With broken heart and contrite sigh Cornelius Elven. 71 

With glory clad, with strength arrayed Tate and Brady. 427 

With joy shall I behold the day James Merrick. 199 

With one consent let all the earth Tate and Brady. 277 

Witness, ye men and angels, now Benjamin Beddome. 239 

Ye boundless realms of joy Tate and Brady. 411 

Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim A non. 290 

Ye servants of the Lord Philip Doddridge. 171 



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